Cisco Aironet 350 wireless in FC2-2.6.5

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:27:30 -0800, Rick Stevens
<rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 10:01:01 -0800, Rick Stevens
> > <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>ESSID="youressid open"
> >>
> >
> >
> > Is this where that belongs? I've been sticking a command in rc.local
> > as I did not seem to find documentation on this.
> 
> I mistyped.  "open", "on", "off", "restricted", and "[x]" are valid
> arguments to iwconfig's "KEY" option, so that should be on the "KEY="
> line:
> 
>         KEY="s:yourkeystring open"
> 
> The options for ESSID are an actual ESSID or the word "any" (for access
> to any network found).  The startup scripts take whatever is on the line
> and feeds it to iwconfig after the keyword.  So a file with:
> 
>         ESSID=myessid
>         KEY="s:mykeystring open"
> 
> would end up creating a line like:
> 
>         iwconfig wlan0 ESSID myessid KEY s:mykeystring open ...
> 
> It's really pretty straight forward if you look at
> "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless".
> 

OK, I'm looking at the script. Can you elaborate on the use of the
s:mykeystring? I use a 24 digit hexadecimal number. I don't see any
switch based on the s: being there or not being there. What do it do?

Thanks,
Mark