[SLE] wireless card help

From: Bakir Helic (bh_at_linux.org.ba)
Date: 10/31/03

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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:08:54 +0100

    Hi,

    I'm using fixed wireless for internet access with Cisco Aironet 350 PCI on
    SuSE 9.0
    There's also a standard ethernet card in my PC.
    Ethernet is eth0 for local network, and wireless is wlan0 (auto Yast
    configured), but when I run iwconfig or ifconfig I get three cards: eth0,
    eth1 and wlan0.
    There's no record in /etc/sysconfig/network of eth1, but ifconfig shows that
    eth1 has an ip and route shows it as default gateway. For wlan0 ifconfig
    shows:
    wlan0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr
    00-09-43-8C-85-E3-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2312  Metric:1
              RX packets:3684 errors:32024 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:32024
              TX packets:3038 errors:142 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:142
              collisions:4557 txqueuelen:100
              RX bytes:1920328 (1.8 Mb)  TX bytes:361131 (352.6 Kb)
              Interrupt:11 Base address:0xb400

    The problem I'm having is that I can't permanently fix access point MAC
    address. That should be done in /etc/sysconfig/netwok/ifcfg-wlan0
    WIRELESS_IWCONFIG='ap ma:ca:dd:re:ss:00'
    But when I try that option I get error "wlan0 interface doesn't support MAC
    address". The same thing happens when I try to set the samo thing in
    /etc/sysconfig/network/wireless
    My ISP has two access points with DHCP in my area which use different subnets,
    and if card switches form one access point to another (and that's often) I
    can't access network until it associates back to the first AP.

    Does anyone have an idea how can I specify MAC for eth1 since I can't find any
    config file for it? 

    -- 
Best Regards,
Bakir Helic, bh@linux.org.ba
on 10/31/03
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