Is there an easy way to bring my wifi card at boot / init 3?[Scanned]

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Wed Aug 16 00:14:45 UTC 2006


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Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Chris Bradford wrote:
[...]
>>I'm using the bcm43xx built-in kernel driver with the firmware from
>>my windows driver. It works a treat with Network Manager but I
>>really want to have this card brought up automatically at startup.
>>Its a desktop that will only ever connect to the network 'linksys'
>>that uses wpa-psk encryption if that helps.
>>
>>Is there a simple, non-interactive way to do this?
> 
> Turn off NetworkManager (service NetworkManager stop; chkconfig
> NetworkManager off).  Then configure the card using
> system-config-network.

Does system-config-network support WPA now?  I didn't think it did out
of the box.  I edited ifup-wireless and created ifdown-wireless in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ to call wpa_supplicant to handle
setting up the WPA connection.  If that's been changed now I'd love to
know. :)

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