From: John Croft (john.croft_at_jcu.edu.au)
Date: 2002-09-13 03:52:52 UTC
I have never seen this documented as a simple way to get RedHat to
bring up and configure the hostap_pci module in one easy step, so:
Append to file: /etc/modules.conf
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alias wlan0 hostap_pci
post-install hostap_pci \
iwconfig wlan0 mode master && \
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 && \
iwconfig wlan0 essid "my-wireless" && \
iwconfig wlan0 txpower 30mW && \
iwconfig wlan0 nick hostap && \
prism2_param wlan0 beacon_int 1000
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Tested on RedHat 7.3 - using latest release hostap-2002-09-12.tar.gz on a DLink DWL-520 pci prism2.5 card. I had occasional failures to perform the setting of the <arg,value> pairs all on one invocation of iwconfig - hence the above.
An extension of this is to load and configure hostap_crypt_wep as well.
This works for me, however I bet there are other ways, which are probably more RedHat-ish. Anyone .... :-)
-- JohnC
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