Activating wireless card at boot

[Don Dupy]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, antonio montagnani wrote:

> 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...
>
>

my wireless card on my laptop is eth1. I dont know what the difference is 
between that and wlan0, but mine works fine. I can ifup eth1 ifdown eth1 
or whatever. This may be a little off topic but I have my eth cards set to 
not start at boot. It boots faster when not connected to anything. then 
just open a terminal and ifup ethX

  Don Dupy

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