Centrino wireless with additional ethernet adapter

Jeff Elkins jeffelkins at earthlink.net
Tue May 17 17:15:44 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 17 May 2005 12:39 pm, Raghu Vemuri wrote:
> Jeff Elkins wrote:
> >When booting with wireless active and no eth0 connection, the system hangs
> > at boot with 'establishing network connection.'  It's interupptable with
> > ctrl-c, but after boot I hace to do a /etc/init.d/networking restart to
> > enable loopback.
>
> eth0 is brought up the hotplug system.  I have commented out the
> "hotplug" mapping for eth0 on my /etc/network/interfaces file and now
> eth0 is not enabled at boot time.
>
> >Additionally, I'm starting the wireless with:
> >
> >iwconfig eth1 key MYHEXPASS
> >dhclient eth1
> >
> >in an init.script.
> >
> >Any suggestions on cleaning this up?
>
> you can setup eth1 in your /etc/network/interfaces file with these lines
>
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>     wireless-essid any
>     wireless-key MYHEXPASS
>
> then you use the following command to bring up eth1
>
> ifup eth1
>
> If you want to automatically have eth1 enabled during boot then having
> this line in the /etc/network/interfaces file should do it.
>     auto eth1
>
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Jeff Elkins
>
> HTH.
> Raghu

Thanks Raghu, that works much better!



Jeff




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