{"id":198,"date":"2006-03-24T22:44:56","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T19:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/who-said-wireless-networking-in-linux-is-hard\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T22:44:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T19:44:56","slug":"who-said-wireless-networking-in-linux-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/03\/24\/who-said-wireless-networking-in-linux-is-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"who said wireless networking in linux is hard ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had for over 2 months a friend’s left over laptop at my house. It’s an old amd K6 333Mhz with 64Mb RAM. Useless ? maybe yes maybe not…I just wanted to see what I coulld do with it…<\/p>\n

I’ve booted it with DSL<\/a> and I had a nice desktop to work on…now what ? A few days ago I had started preparing a new linux based access point for our local wireless network in the city I study. It had 2 Winstron CM9 802.11a\/b\/g cards and one netgear MA311 802.11.b card. I also happen to have an orinoco gold 802.11a\/b\/g pcmcia card I was given some time ago as a gift (even though I don’t own a laptop, yet). So why not mess with these two ? I plugged in the pcmcia in the laptop and it was instantly recognized. Then I just added through ifconfig the IP that I wanted the wireless card to have…and wow! I was associated instantly with the remote linux based AP in the next room. That was easy \ud83d\ude42 It’s probably a good time now to install dhcp to that AP too so I won’t even need to add an IP manually \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So all I had to do was give an IP…no drivers…nothing. The card was automatically recognized, and here’s the lsmod part about it:
\n
\nroot@ttyp0[root]# lsmod | grep ath
\nath_pci 31508 1
\nwlan 48520 1 [ath_pci]
\nath_hal 111792 1 [ath_pci]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

By the way…this card is NOT recognized in windows XP without drivers. And if you happen to forgot the drivers cd while travelling…you are probably doomed.<\/p>\n

Good job linux people \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had for over 2 months a friend’s left over laptop at my house. It’s an old amd K6 333Mhz with 64Mb RAM. Useless ? maybe yes maybe not…I just wanted to see what I coulld do with it… I’ve booted it with DSL and I had a nice desktop to work on…now what ? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-networking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t