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</author>
<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.2</revnumber>
<date>2003-04-07</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>Made a few typo corrections. Publish it on Freshmeat</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>2.0.2</revnumber>
<date>2003-02-24</date>
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<revnumber>2.0</revnumber>
<date>2003-01-15</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>I have decided to generalize this document to other distributions then just debian. The redhat section is due to the generous contribution of Tony Perrie of Involution (.DOT.) com. I also recently got a fast connection again and was able to update kernal and patches info. I also tried out the new wlan-ng module</revremark>
<revremark>I have decided to generalize this document to other distributions then just Debian. The redhat section is due to the generous contribution of Tony Perrie of Involution (.DOT.) com. I also recently got a fast connection again and was able to update kernel and patches info. I also tried out the new wlan-ng module</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
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<revnumber>1.1.1</revnumber>
<date>2002-04-27</date>
<authorinitials>gea</authorinitials>
<revremark>some more grammer improvements, and highlighting to make things clearer</revremark>
<revremark>some more grammar improvements, and highlighting to make things clearer</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
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<indexterm>
<primary>Abstract</primary>
</indexterm>
<para>This is a Cookbook on how to set up a Wireless Link-Sys WPC11 card using a Link-SYS Wireless Access Point/DSL/Switch on a Debian system. Other systesm are addressed.
<para>This is a Cookbook on how to set up a Wireless Link-Sys WPC11 card using a Link-SYS Wireless Access Point/DSL/Switch on a Debian system. Other systems are addressed.
</para>
</abstract>
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</para>
<sect3>
<title>Redhat installation</title>
<para>I have gotten a few requests for help on getting the card installed on other distributions. I will try to address the RedHat Installation in this mini-howt-to</para>
<para>I have gotten a few requests for help on getting the card installed on other distributions. I will try to address the RedHat Installation in this mini-how-to</para>
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>Suse Installation</title>
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<entry>0.1.16-pre8</entry>
<entry><ulink url="http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/">Abosulte systems</ulink></entry>
<entry><ulink url="http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/">Absolute systems</ulink></entry>
<entry>Make sure you download the <emphasis>11Mbps</emphasis> version. Works for 0.1.16-pre8</entry>
</row>
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<entry><ulink url="http://www.kernel.org">www.kernel.org</ulink></entry>
<entry>You must know how to build and patch a kernel to do this. Its not hard and I will show you<footnote>
<para>Note to patch a kernal you type <screen>bzip2 -dc patch-2.4.21-pre3.bz2 | patch -p0</screen></para>
<para>Note to patch a kernel you type <screen>bzip2 -dc patch-2.4.21-pre3.bz2 | patch -p0</screen></para>
</footnote>
</entry>
</row>
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</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Notes on additional helpfulsoftware</title>
<title>Notes on additional helpful software</title>
<para>You will also need some way to setup you IP address on your wireless card, I recommend either <screen>apt-get install DHCP-client</screen> to install the DHCP-client that will automatically configure your IP address, if you have a DHCP server. The WAP-11 hardware does provide DHCP server capabilities</para>
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<sect1><title>Debian Kernel Configuration</title>
<sect2><title>What TO enable</title>
<para>In order to use the wireless tools, like <emphasis>iwconfig</emphasis>, which will allow you tell how good your connection is, you need to enable support for <emphasis>Wireless LAN (Non-Ham Rasio)</emphasis>.</para>
<para>In order to use the wireless tools, like <emphasis>iwconfig</emphasis>, which will allow you tell how good your connection is, you need to enable support for <emphasis>Wireless LAN (Non-Ham Radio)</emphasis>.</para>
<para>In these examples, I use <screen>make menuconfig</screen> to configure my kernel.</para>
<para>You can do this by:</para>
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Then Choose the options,
so that it looks like below, or something
as close to this.
Note I am uing 'make menuconfig'
Note I am using 'make menuconfig'
to configure my kernel
</para>