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SKYSCAPE in Toronto has been playing with wireless for some time now.
Eugene Kashpureff (ALTERNIC) actually ran the Lan in his apartment off of
one of our 4 meg SST units. He is a Linux guy and he had it going really
well for several months.

You there Euge?

On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Joe McGuckin wrote:

>
> I have a Linux laptop & want to use one of the WaveLAN (Digital)
> wireless units.
>
> If someone has this working, I'd like to hear from you.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joe McGuckin
>
> 1-888-371-4284 toll-free pager
>

> I have a Linux laptop & want to use one of the WaveLAN (Digital)
> wireless units.
>
> If someone has this working, I'd like to hear from you.

I have a laptop w/Linux 2.0.30. Hope you have the sources on your laptop.
This is supported in 2.0.x. Can't help you for anything before that.
Nope, the generic kernels don't have Wavelan support built in :(

Just in case anybody else is at NANOG and wants to use the Wavelans:

cd to /usr/src/linux. vi .config. Search for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. Define it
(ie: delete the "#" and say "CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y"). Next line, add
"CONFIG_WAVELAN=y". Make the new kernel ("make depend ; make clean ;
make zImage"). If you've installed Linux on a laptop, then you're not
clueless and you know where to go from here (lilo, etc).

You'll need to remake/reinstall pcmcia (hope you have those sources also)
since the symbols won't match. You can force pcmcia to run anyway w/o
rebuilding, but it might not be pretty... Don't forget to edit
/etc/pcmcia/network.opts with the address you've been given.

I'd give you my kernel+pcmcia, but I left my laptop at home today.

> Thanks,

No prob.

rob.

I need to issue some warnings :(

> > I have a Linux laptop & want to use one of the WaveLAN (Digital)
> > wireless units.
> >
> > If someone has this working, I'd like to hear from you.
>
> I have a laptop w/Linux 2.0.30. Hope you have the sources on your laptop.
> This is supported in 2.0.x. Can't help you for anything before that.
> Nope, the generic kernels don't have Wavelan support built in :(
>
> Just in case anybody else is at NANOG and wants to use the Wavelans:
>
> cd to /usr/src/linux. vi .config. Search for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. Define it
> (ie: delete the "#" and say "CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y"). Next line, add
> "CONFIG_WAVELAN=y". Make the new kernel ("make depend ; make clean ;
> make zImage"). If you've installed Linux on a laptop, then you're not
> clueless and you know where to go from here (lilo, etc).

Sone will argue the "proper" was of doing this is:

"make config", and keep hitting enter and take all the defaults (actually
the .config current entries) until you hit "Network device support".
Carefully make your way to "Radio network interfaces (CONFIG_NET_RADIO)
[N/y/?]" and of course hit "Y". Then 2 more questions to " WaveLAN support
(CONFIG_WAVELAN) [N/y/m/?]" and hit "Y". Hit enter for all the rest of
the questions until you hit "The linux kernel is now hopefully configured
for your setup", and then follow the "make depend ; make clean ; make zImage"
routine.

rob.

In message <199706051951.MAA06225@ranma.com>, you write:
> I need to issue some warnings :(

<snip>

> > Just in case anybody else is at NANOG and wants to use the Wavelans:

> > cd to /usr/src/linux. vi .config. Search for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. Define it
> > (ie: delete the "#" and say "CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y"). Next line, add
> > "CONFIG_WAVELAN=y". Make the new kernel ("make depend ; make clean ;
> > make zImage"). If you've installed Linux on a laptop, then you're not
> > clueless and you know where to go from here (lilo, etc).

> Sone will argue the "proper" was of doing this is:

> "make config", and keep hitting enter and take all the defaults (actually
> the .config current entries) until you hit "Network device support".
> Carefully make your way to "Radio network interfaces (CONFIG_NET_RADIO)
> [N/y/?]" and of course hit "Y". Then 2 more questions to " WaveLAN support
> (CONFIG_WAVELAN) [N/y/m/?]" and hit "Y". Hit enter for all the rest of
> the questions until you hit "The linux kernel is now hopefully configured
> for your setup", and then follow the "make depend ; make clean ; make zImage"
> routine.

Or, "make menuconfig" and use the nifty ncurses interface to the kernel
configs. Jump right to the "Radio netowrk interfaces" and toggle it there.
Or, if you have X11 on the laptop, run "make xconfig" and use the X interface
to the kernel configs.. =)

None of these are the 'right' way, but none of this discussion belongs on
nanog either... =)

--
Michael Parson
SMART Technologies