Also sprach Jeremy T. Bouse (Thu 24 Jul 02003 at 02:35:12PM -0700): > For using my Cisco Aironet 350 on my Sony Vaio laptop that goes > between several WiFi networks using WEP I just created a script that I > use in /etc/network/interfaces that handles the mapping for me... The > script basically scans the network and tries to match an ESSID it finds > from scanning to a mapping config line... > > What I end up with in the interfaces file is along the lines of: > > mapping eth1 wifi0 > script /path/to/get-essid.sh > map ESSID-Office wifi-office > map ESSID-Home wifi-home > > iface wifi-home inet dhcp > wireless_mode managed > wireless_esside ESSID-Home > wireless_key <10 or 26 hexadecimal key> > wireless_enc on > > iface wifi-office inet dhcp > wireless_mode managed > wireless_esside ESSID-Home > wireless_key <10 or 26 hexadecimal key> > wireless_enc on > > I am not writing this from the laptop at the moment so I don't > have the get-essid.sh script handy but if there is interest I'll try to > get it posted later... Yes, I am interested in what you have scripted . . . -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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