Re: wireless lan config

["Bastien R. Nocera" <hadess@hadess.net>]

Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 12:52:08AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
>
> > I have the /etc/network/interfaces with my eth1 (airport card) 
> > configured (IP config is correctly restored on boot). What are the 
> > options to this file to set ESSID, NICK and MODE for my station ? Or is 
> > there another file that does take care of this ?
>
> Here's a version of what's in my /etc/network/interfaces. You can
> basically put anything after "up" -- see man interfaces(5).
>
> iface eth1 inet static
> 	address 10.0.0.21
> 	netmask 255.0.0.0
> 	gateway 10.0.0.1
> 	up iwconfig eth1 essid BlahBlahBlah
> 	up iwconfig eth1 enc yadayada
> 	up iwconfig eth1 nick loki 


Thanks a lot to everybody who responded to this question. I think this 
one is the best so far ;)

Thanks all of you for this

Cheers