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

[Chris Bradford]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
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> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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>> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Chris Bradford wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>> Turn off NetworkManager (service NetworkManager stop; chkconfig
>> NetworkManager off).  Then configure the card using
>> system-config-network.
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> 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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Todd,

Can you forward me details on how you edited these scripts to call wpa 
supplicant?

Many thanks,

-Chris


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