Re: Mandrake 9.1 and Wireless Networking

From: horne (horne_at_member.fsf.org)
Date: 08/29/03 

Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:58:44 GMT

Jason Kumpf scribbled:

> Recently I finally got a wireless card for my laptop (Dell Inspiron
> 8200). I got the card through work so it they got it from Dell
> (TrueMobile 1150 Series Wireless Mini PCI Card). As soon as I booted
> up, without changing anything, mandrake had recognized it, installed
> what it needed and then connected automatically to the nearest
> wireless access point. YIKES!! That access point is not even in our
> office, it might be some local college hacker!

If you are using the KDE desktop, the control panel should provide a GUI
interface to configure the WiFi interface - you can disable it by default
here and enable the CAT5 interface. The WAP must have a unique name, as
the factory default is common to all WAPs from that manufacturer, hence the
reason you probably connected to the non-corporate WAP by default. As for
security WEP is pretty weak so if you really need secure communications
link use SSH on both ends of the link, or at least up to the link between
the WAP and the device connected to your corporate infrastructure via CAT5
cable. 

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