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On 10 Sep 07 at 9:25, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>> There is huge output from cardmgr. What will be the next step
>> in order to go online with the wifi card?
>
>Don't know about the output. But to go beyond the point you're at, what you
>really need is called (I think) wireless-tools. That will give you the most
>flexibility in connecting to available networks. What I do (not using BL,
>unfortunately) once the wireless NIC's module is successfully loaded, is
>issue
>
>-----------
>iwlist scan
>-----------
>
>from the CLI. If you've installed wireless-tools, the iwlist command will be
>on the system. The results of that command will provide you information on
>all wireless networks within range. It will tell you each network's essid
>(the network's name), broadcasting channel, and whether it's an encrypted
>network (among other things). After that, you decide which network you want
>to connect with and configure your card to use it. You do that by issuing
>
>------------------------------------------
>iwconfig wlan0 essid networkname channel #
>------------------------------------------
>
>(iwconfig is another utility included in wireless-tools). wlan0 should be
>replaced by the correct interface name for your PCMCIA card--not sure what
>name the Avaya card gets. # should be replaced by the channel number the
>iwlist output told you the network in question is broadcasting on. Then,
>just issue iwconfig on its own (no arguments) to check whether the card took
>the settings. Once it has, then issue udhcpc wlan0 (replacing wlan0 with the
>name of your NIC). If you've selected an open, unencrypted network, your
>card should get an IP offer and you'll be connected to that network.
>Hopefully that network is, in turn, connected to the web and you can do your
>internet stuff.

Thank you, James, now it becomes clearer to me. I found several 
versions of wireless-tools on the web, but was only able to compile it
in my BL2 environment, so the binaries do not work in BL3. 

This is why I started my BL2 installation with 2.2.26 kernel in
order to initialize the wireless card. I got the impression that the
SW 7.1 version of cardmgr has some problem, but the modules at least
seem to load correctly. The wireless utilities, however did not work
because there was no interface created (apart from lo).

Two questions: 

1. Are there any compiled versions of wireless-tools for the BL3 
environment (libc5) available? 

2. How can I test whether the cardmgr operation is successful and 
an interface for iwconfig (e.g. wlan0) exists? 

Regards, 
Christof


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