Re: Howto get an automatic Wifi connection?

[Patrick <fedora-list puzzled xs4all nl>]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 19:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 01:34 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a PC with F8 & a usb wifi dongle and I would like to configure
> > the PC that when it boots it will automagically negotiate a WPA2/PSK
> > 802.11g link with my Access Point and get an IP address from the DHCP
> > server behind the AP.
> 
> Given that the Wifi is via a USB dongle, the first order of business
> would be to make sure your system recognizes it and has the appropriate
> drivers. Can you use iwconfig, iwlist etc?

It's a Speedtouch ST121G and it works fine with ndiswrapper. It lists
the available networks with iwlist wlan0 scan.

> If that all works then you need to look at configuring wpa_supplicant,
> which is where the WPA stuff is handled.  It in turn may need to
> interact with dhclient and then of course you want to start it up on
> boot. I've managed to do this once in a while on Ubuntu and Fedora, but
> it is definitely a head-banger to get going. Once it works you don't
> touch anything and it generally keeps working. Google is your friend :-)

Ok that sounds like a start. I'll look into wpa_supplicant. Any idea if
I have to configure system-network-services too?

Thanks,
Patrick