Thread: wifi & iwconfig
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Old 09-26-2005, 03:35 PM
Derek Broughton
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Default Re: wifi & iwconfig

Giuseppe Tricarico wrote:

> Hi have a laptop with RH8, and cisco aironet350 pcmcia card..
>
> I installed the driver, and the interface is named as 'eth0', the
> interface
> works well and I can configure using "proc/driver/aironet/eth0" but
> "iwconfig" tells "eth0 no wireless extensions".... what happens ??


iwconfig works with the "linux wireless extensions". Just because a card is
wireless doesn't mean it _supports_ the wireless extensions.

A quick google for 'aironet 350 "wireless extensions"' shows that you are
probably using the cisco driver instead of the linux driver:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/wirel...ry/002843.html

(why on earth that was asked on a Samba list, perplexes me...)
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derek

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