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Ditaki
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:19 am    Post subject: iwconfig at startup? Reply with quote
Hi all:

After a few hours of tinkering, I finally got my ipw2200-driven wireless card to connect to the internet, to my WEP-protected connection.

The problem is, I have to take a number of steps at start up to get it there:

Code:
#modprobe ipw2200
iwconfig eth0 essid ********
iwconfig eth0 key open **********


After that, the system (and kwifimanager) connect to my wireless network.

However, when I try to set ipw2200 to autoload at start, the boot-up procedure hangs at:

Code:
Retrieving IP via DHCP....


or something like that.

I think it's because what I'm inputting in iwconfig isn't getting saved wherever it needs to be.

So, basically, my question is, how do I get my wireless network to start up at boot?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
You might like to look at the following resources:
- Gentoo Handbook - Wireless Networking
- HOWTO Wireless Configuration and Startup
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