wireless at startup?
Ben Anderson
benanderson.us at gmail.com
Thu Aug 4 21:59:18 UTC 2005
Hi,
My wireless card is working great, however I must not have the correct
configuration in my /etc/network/interfaces. Is there a good
explanation of the wireless settings anywhere. I looked in the man
page, but the wireless options weren't even listed. Here's what I've
got:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
#mapping hotplug
# script grep
# map eth0
# Added by ben
mapping hotplug
script grep
map wlan0
# The primary network interface
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
name Wireless LAN card
wireless_essid mattie
wireless_key 2222222222
wireless_channel 6
wireless_mode managed
So, this doesn't work, but once the system is up, I've been running:
iwconfig wlan0 channel 6
wconfig wlan0 essid mattie
wconfig wlan0 key restricted 2222222222
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
dhclient
#wait....
ifconfig eth0 down # why does this come up? It's not even connected.
# and everything works beautifully
Any help on fixing my interfaces file would be awesome!!!
Thanks,
Ben
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