Activating wireless card at boot

Richard S. Crawford rscrawford at mossroot.com
Sat Feb 5 16:55:17 UTC 2005


On Saturday 05 February 2005 7:07 am, akonstam at trinity.edu flailed at a 
keyboard and produced this:
> First, I am well aware that one can get eth0 not to come up on boot.
> But I was just trying to get Fedora to do what that dreaded M$
> operating system does, which is, that when it detects that the eth0
> interface is not connected does npt bring the interface up.

Ah.  I misunderstood you.  My apologies.


> But I still don't see why you don't bring up the interface by the
> command: ifup wlan0

Again, I think I am still misunderstanding you.  Surely I can use that command 
to bring up my wireless card *after* I boot, but I'm trying to get things set 
up so that I can just boot and go, without having to enter any commands at 
all when I boot up my computer.  

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Slainte,
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