setting a for a wireless ethernet card

[Timothy Murphy]

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 14:46, Jim Dai wrote:
> I used redhat-config to configure a
> pcmica wireless card. The security key is in the
> config file.  While I can activate the card within the network-config
> and the card works well. However, when I reboot the machine,
> I need to manually do
> iwconfig eth0 key a1112aa0
> soon enough for the dhcp-client (lunched by
> /etc/init.rc/) to get an ip address.
>
> Is there a way to fix this problem?

You could put the command you give in /etc/rc.d/rc.local .
(May be better to say /sbin/iwconfig in place of iwconfig .)

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