Jacek Pliszka's hostap with Red Hat 9 page

For more wireless infor clik here

For one of HostAP HOWTOs look here. Another one is here

I bough a cheap D-link DWL-500 v. J3. Initially it did not work at all neither in Linux nor in Windows 98. But then I tried it in Windows XP Pro the card did work so I went back to Linux. After many tries this is the config that worked for me:

Red Hat 9
kernel 2.4.23-rc2
hostap-driver-0.1.2

I used 2.4.20 kernel patch from it and copied the files from hostap directory to the kernel directory and compiled into the kernel (did not work otherwise). Then I had to remove /lib/modules/2.4.23-rc2/pcmcia as it confused /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia script. My /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia is the following:

PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=yenta_socket
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=-f

More later ...

Jacek Pliszka

Last modified: Fri Nov 21 20:33:14 CET 2003