[NTLUG:Discuss] SMC2532W-B Wireless Hardware on SUSE

[Terry Henderson]

SuSE 8.0 and later
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		(Contributed by Christian Zoz <zoz at suse.de>)
	All network configuration is done in the directory
/etc/sysconfig/network. It does not matter if it's a build in NIC or
PCMCIA, USB, etc. The files network.opts and wireless.opts in
/etc/pcmcia are not used any longer. There is /sbin/ifup to set up all
kind of network interface.
	There is a file /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless where you may
set most of the options of iwconfig in seperate variables (they are
named like the options). Additionally you may use
WIRELESS_IWCONFIG_OPTIONS e.g. for setting key 2, 3 or 4 or
unsupported iwconfig commands. This file is documented and its
settings are used for any wlan NIC.
	Configuration of wireless variable looks like :
		WIRELESS_ESSID="<essid>"
	Every variable from file wireless may be used in the interface
configuration files /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* as well. As
expectable this overwrites the global setting in wireless. For
sophisticated use of the ifcfg-* files read 'man ifup'.

	Hint for PCMCIA and USB users:
	You need not to use the iterface name for the configuration as
this may vary from one plugin to another. You may use a description of
your hardware instead (ifcfg-<MACADDRESS> or ifcfg-pcmcia-1 for card
in Slot 1)

	Some of the variables can be set with YaST2 as well.

	If you miss the 'schemes' functionality from the pcmcia-cs
packages use the tool SCPM (System Configuration Profile Management)
instead. This extends the pcmcia schemes to the whole system
configuration. Read 'info scpm'. Since SuSE 8.1 there also is a YaST2
modul for SCPM.

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