IPW2200 Configuration in 7.10

[Mark Nichols]

I am testing a ThinkPad Z60m using the 7.10 Live CD.  "Out of the box" the
128-bit WEP encryption is not available, and therefore I wasn't able to
access my wireless router, or the Internet.

Googling the problem led me to this bug report (Bug #67876 in
gnome-system-tools) (
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/67876 )
which explains how to manually setup eht1 by following these steps:

iwconfig eth1 essid "yourSSIDhere" key "allTwentySixHexLettersHere"
sudo ifdown eth1
sudo ifup eth1

Once I executed these commands my Intell PRO/Wireless 2200 BG card was
working and I was connected to the router.

One of the comments to the article mentions modifying the wireless-tools
file in /etc/network/id-pre-up.d, so that these commands happen
automatically at boot time.

My questions are:

1) Is there a better (preferred) way to enable 128-bit WEP encryption in
7.10?

2) If the answer to #1 is no, then where in wireless-tools (and how) do I
add the three lines above?

Thanks!
Mark

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Release 7.10 (gutsy), Kernel Linux 2.6.22-14-generic, GNOME 2.20.0
Memory 2.2 GB, Processor 0 & 1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.4 GHz, Graphics:
ATI Radeon X300
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