Nov
16
2008

Setting Up Wireless Under Linux

Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 04:49:03 pm
(Posted Under: Linux Linux, )
With the move, I've had to take wireless networking to the next step, connecting the PC upstairs wireless. It hadn't been a big issue until earlier this week when we got the internet connected. But moving the server downstairs to support that has left me networklelss up here.

The plan was to throw a wireless device into my PC, and way you go. Thanks to someone at work, a wireless card was no problem. However later this week I had a terrible thought - that my PC was properly using all the PCI slots. Why these days it's thought that 2 PCI slots are enough, I do not know. After checking, unfortunately it turned out to be true. After deciding to setup a second routing machine up here, on Friday night I decided try putting the card in my Linux server downstairs. Which seemed like a recipie for disaster, as I got the card for free because the previous owner couldn't get it working under Linux.

Much to my suprise, it only took a couple of hours on Friday night to get things up and running, and most of that time was spent dealing with kernel issues that I've been suffering for a couple of months. As such, I've finally, after 4 years left 2.6.8 behind in preference for 2.6.19.

Anyways, setting everything up has been a lot simplier than what I'd read on the net. The largest problem I've really encounting is the daemons that require network interfaces to be up when they start - naemly dhcp, named and samba (through my own configuration). I sorted that out this afternoon with creating an init script that checks the wireless connection status and restart the services.

While having the main interface on my server being wireless isn't an ideal, it seems to be working well.

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