"wifi-radar" wanted

[Tony Arnold]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 09:25 -0400, gotmonkey wrote:

> I am fine with running wifi-radar after I log into gnome. When I boot,
> I get held up at network interfaces. Is there a way to speed this up? 

> The question is: Is there a way to start the hardware initializing
> without it trying to start a network connection? Since I am most likely
> going to be using wifi-radar to connect to my various WAPs manually.

> I rarely plug my laptop into a hard line network, I would like the
> option to, but don't need it trying to find connection at boot. 

You could edit the file /etc/network/interfaces and remove or comment
out all the lines that start with 'auto'. This will stop the system
trying to bring these interfaces up at boot time. wifi-radar will then
activate your wireless interface when you run it.

> > You can run wifi-radar at boot time with the -d option. I added the
> > option 'up wifi-radar -d' to my interace definition for the wireless
> > card in /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> I couldn't get this to work properly. It froze my system.

Odd. Did you try putting the full pat to wifi-radar on the 'up' line?

Regards,
Tony.
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