WLAN Installation Documentation.

1. Install PCMCIA hardware.

2. Set in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to

PCMCIA=yes

PCIC=i82363

3. Run setup and in system services check PCMCIA as present.

4. Get source in ether way:

· Download file linux-wlan-0.3.3.tar.gz from

ftp://absoral.com/pub/linux-wlan/

· Get file linux-wlan-0.3.3.tar from floppy made up by our team due to continues business of this link.

mount –t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

cp /mnt/floppy/linux-wlan-0.3.3.tar /usr/src

umount /mnt/floppy

5. Install this file into /usr/src directory.

gunzip linux-wlan-0.3.3.tar.gz

tar –xf linux-wlan-0.3.3.tar

6. Change in /etc/pcmcia/config

device “3c589_cs” class “network” module “3c589_cs”

to

device “am930_cs” class “wlan” module “am930_cs”

7. In our case we added some components to Linux. For this step you will need CD-ROM with RedHat installation.

mount –t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS

rpm –i make-3.77-6.i386.rpm

rpm –i Kernel-headers-2.2.5-15.i386.rpm

rpm –i Kernel-source-2.2.5-15.i386.rpm

rpm –i glibc-devel-2.1.1-6.i386.rpm

umount /dev/cdrom

8. This step allows you to change configuration for PCMCIA driver, that will be appropriate for our system.

cd /usr/src/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9

make-config

And we are going to accept defaults excluding these cases:

· Linux source directory: /usr/src/linux

· Module install directory: /lib/modules/2.2.5-15

· How would you like to set Kernel-specific options?: 1.Read from the current running Kernel.

· System v init script layout: y

9. Change file /usr/src/linux-wlan-0.3.3/config make

Linux = /usr/src/linux

PCMCIA=/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9

MODULES_DIR= /lib/modules/2.2.5-15

UTS_RELEASE= 2.2.5

10. As long as you in directory /usr/src/linux-wlan-0.3.3/ you can do

make all

make install

Make all shouldn’t give you any error messages at this point, if not this documentation cannot help you.

11. Look up into /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth1 file in case if it need to be edited.

12. Copy files wlan, wlan.config, wlan.opts from /usr/src/linux-wlan-0.3.3/ to /etc/pcmcia/

13. Change mode for wlan and wlan.opts to 755

14. Change your options in wlan.ops file to look like this

SSID=WLAN_AP1

SSID=NeesusPCAP

SSID=LinuxAP

SSID=ZoomAP

SSID=WLAN_AVS

CREATEBSS=yes

CHANNEL=6

BCN_INT=300

STARTCH=1

ENDCH=11

15. You should edit /etc/pcmcia/config file in order to provide an information about the card

16. Stop and restart PCMCIA services:

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d

./pcmcia stop

./pcmcia start

Good luck!