Setting up more than one wireless connection.

[outlawpsd]

I am currently running a Dell Latitude D600 with an Intel Pro Wireless 2100 card installed. I have just installed Fedora 4 and downloaded the latest firmware from the sourceforge site for the wireless card and installed on the laptop. I have wireless up and running, but my issue is this. Network config recognizes my wireless card as eth1. On this connection I can use DHCP and everything works great and I can connect to my network. When I create any other wireless connections, which show up as eth1:1, eth1:2, etc, the DHCP option gets grayed out and I must enter static information. I need to have all my wireless connections setup so that I can use DHCP for them. Does anyone know how? As of right now I have to create a connection at each location I go to and delete it when I go somewhere else. This is getting a little old with all the WEP keys I have to keep entering.

Also, I am having an issue with airsnort and my card. Not sure if it’s related, but maybe someone can help. Airsnort works fine as long as I have a configured connection, but if I go somewhere new and fire it up it does not work. It is almost like the card is not activated. I tried ifup eth1 but that fails. Anyone know a fix for this? Kind of hard to setup a connection when you don’t know the setting before you use the app. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks in advance.

[kg4cbk]

You might want to try NetworkManager. When I was playing with that application it appeared that it would keep track of the different access points along with the wep keys. I stopped using it due to problems I was having with the centrino chip set in the laptop.

When I am traveling I just modify the ESSID and wep key for the wireless interface to make the connection. I used the sticky notes application to keep track of the wep keys, Just copy/paste the right key when needed.

Have not used airsnort. Have used kiismet (gkismet) which works well. However if you are just trying to find access points the quickest/easiest way is to use:

iwlist scan

You get a quick list of access points that you see along with their ESSIDS if they are not hidden.