Ask for wireless ssid on boot.

beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

Hey, I am kinda new to boot scripts.
I have just got a Dell Notebook (D 610), and I gentoo'd it withing 3 days of owning it.

Pentium M, 1.6, 512MB, IPW220 working great <3 emerge

my problem is with wifi, I want to have it ask me for a ssid on boot.

I have looked at ifplugd, and I plan to use that for my on board gigabit lan. but its the wifi I really want to get working.

I am noobish, I know my way around my computer, and I have gentoo'd a few systems.

-Thanks in advance
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beatryder · Veteran Joined: 08 Apr 2005 Posts: 1138

A friend of mine has suggested to me a method of using grub to pass the parameters at boot time to an init script.

I dont fully understand what he was getting at, but it seemed like it was a cool idea
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