Activating wireless card at boot

antonio montagnani anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Fri Feb 4 22:12:39 UTC 2005


akonstam at trinity.edu ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 04/02/2005 23:06:

>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:53:18PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
>  
>
>>Once my computer is booted up, I can execute the following series of commands 
>>(as root):
>>
>># iwlist wlan0 scan
>># iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <my-key>
>># dhclient wlan0
>>
>>in order to get up and running with my wireless card. I'm using a Linksys 
>>WPC-11b ver. 3 wireless card with ndiswrapper, and my laptop is running FC3 
>>kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC3.
>>
>>No matter what I do, though, I can't seem to get this working on boot. I've 
>>tried creating the new wireless device in the network configuration tool, 
>>entering all of the proper settings in the "Wireless" tab. The computer seems 
>>to recognize the wireless card and reports a strong signal, but I can't see 
>>the SSID for my WAP and I certainly can't get an IP address from the DHCP 
>>server.
>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>    
>>
>If you  have your card properly configured as wlan0 through the
>system-config-network gui then ifup wlan0 should bring it up and
>ifdown wlan0 bring it down. 
>Do you have a eth0 interface on you machine. We have found that even
>if the machine is not connected with a wire the eth0 interface will be
>brought up and prevent the wlan0 interface from coming up.
>
>Now if anyone out there knows how to keep the eth0 interface from
>coming up on boot even when there is no line plugged into it I would
>like to hear about it.
>  
>
by system-control-network, I assume that you should be able to prevent 
eth0 to come up at boottime.

let me know...

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 Antonio M.

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