Austin Godber wrote:

> First of there is a new command you need to know about.... it is 
> iwconfig.  This will allow you to tell your wireless card what network 
> you want to connect to by designating an essid.  Check out the manpage 
> on that one.
>
> If your home wireless network has essid "home" you would do something 
> like:
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 essid home
>
> There is a file that you can specify this in ... not to mention a few 
> new GUI interfaces that set this sort of thing for you now a days.  
> But I can't remember what off the top of my head and must go to work now.
>
> But the iwconfig command is all you need to know to set it once (just 
> like ifconfig ... it will set it once, but if you want it to do it 
> automatically you have to edit a file somewhere).
>
> Good luck
>
> Austin
>
> Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> Can someone help me set up my wireless LAN card on my laptop? My 
>> laptop has a built-in Ethernet port and my wireless card is pcmcia.
>>
>> I can get the card to work - the lights flash and I can get my dhcp 
>> server to give it an address. I need help in two areas - (1) once the 
>> card is up and has an address how do I make it the Ethernet 
>> connection used by other programs and (2) how do I make the system 
>> automatically load the card?
>>
>> I can get the card working with:
>>
>> modprobe ndiswrapper
>> ifconfig wlan0 up
>> dhclient wlan0
>>
>> Now, when I run ifconfig I get wlan0 with a valid Ethernet address on my
>> network. However, I have a built in eth0 so that is always the 
>> default network connection.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
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Austin,

Thanks for responding!

I tried iwconfig and I ended up with wlan0 and eth0 running. When I 
disconnect the LAN cable I cannot access the Internet. So, my second 
problem is how to switch between the two connections - eth0 and wlan0.

Thanks!

Mark
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