SOLVED (SORT OF) - Re: Switching to static IPs for wlan0

[Rick Stevens]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    OK - It's a hack, but it works.
> 
>    For the records the changes to /etc/resolve are caused by the
> PEERDNS-yes line. Changing that to no fixes the issue.
> 
>    I am still not able to figure out KEY=open syntax in my ifcfg-wlan0
> file. No matter what I've tried so far it always comes up in Security
> mode:Restricted, which is probably best for most people anyway. To 
> get around this problem I added
> 
> iwconfig wlan0 key open 
> 
> to /etc/rc.local and the system comes up correctly at boot. I tried
> chatting for a second with some robot and it seemed to work but will
> require the 12 year old's stamp of aproval to be sure.
> 
>    If anyone knows the syntax for putting key=open into ifcfg-wlan0
> I'd sure appreciate a note.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:41:27 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Hi Rick,
>>   OK, so I've had it with this DHCP nonsense for a while. If the
>>scripts are somehow changing files that I've written by hand then I
>>don't like that. I've attempted to set up static IPs based on an email
>>you sent me some weeks ago:
>>
>><SNIP>
>>Ok, here's an example using static IPs.  Items you need to change for
>>your local conditions are marked with a "(*)":
>>
>>       # Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
>>       # for the documentation of these parameters.
>>       # Broadcom BCM94306 802.11g
>>       BOOTPROTO=static
>>       USERCTL=no
>>       PEERDNS=yes
>>(*)     GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
>>       TYPE=Wireless
>>       DEVICE=wlan0
>>(*)     HWADDR=HW-value
>>(*)     NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>>(*)     IPADDR=192.168.0.128
>>(*)     ESSID=sssscnet
>>(*)     CHANNEL=9
>>(*)     KEY=s:WEPkeyInASCII
>>(*)     MODE=Managed
>>(*)     RATE=11Mb/s
>><SNIP>
>>
>>I've copied the above example and then modified for my 192.168.10
>>network. I've modified and rebooted but so far it's not connecting, so
>>I have a couple of questions.
>>
>>1) ONBOOT=yes is OK to get it started automatically?
>>
>>2) I use Open key management. In my script file I use
>>
>>iwconfig key open XXXXX
>>
>>is the right format in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
>>
>>KEY=OPENs:XXXXX  ?????
>>
>>I cannot find an example of that in Google yet.

Try:

	KEY="open s:WEPkeyInAscii"

You need to put the argument in quotes because of the embedded space.

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