Activating wireless card at boot
antonio montagnani
anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Fri Feb 4 22:12:39 UTC 2005
akonstam at trinity.edu ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 04/02/2005 23:06:
>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:53:18PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>
>
>>Once my computer is booted up, I can execute the following series of commands
>>(as root):
>>
>># iwlist wlan0 scan
>># iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <my-key>
>># dhclient wlan0
>>
>>in order to get up and running with my wireless card. I'm using a Linksys
>>WPC-11b ver. 3 wireless card with ndiswrapper, and my laptop is running FC3
>>kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3.
>>
>>No matter what I do, though, I can't seem to get this working on boot. I've
>>tried creating the new wireless device in the network configuration tool,
>>entering all of the proper settings in the "Wireless" tab. The computer seems
>>to recognize the wireless card and reports a strong signal, but I can't see
>>the SSID for my WAP and I certainly can't get an IP address from the DHCP
>>server.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>
>>
>If you have your card properly configured as wlan0 through the
>system-config-network gui then ifup wlan0 should bring it up and
>ifdown wlan0 bring it down.
>Do you have a eth0 interface on you machine. We have found that even
>if the machine is not connected with a wire the eth0 interface will be
>brought up and prevent the wlan0 interface from coming up.
>
>Now if anyone out there knows how to keep the eth0 interface from
>coming up on boot even when there is no line plugged into it I would
>like to hear about it.
>
>
by system-control-network, I assume that you should be able to prevent
eth0 to come up at boottime.
let me know...
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Antonio M.
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