Re: PCMCIA Networking -- who controls? (SOLVED)

[Jesse Hein <heinbulk00@sbcglobal.net>]

Okay, I figured out my mistake. I stumbled across a reference that for 
hotplug cards you are NOT supposed to have the auto line in the stanza. 
Oops!

Jesse Hein wrote:

> I succesfully installed wlan-ng and have the card working, kinda. When 
> first put in, or at bootup, I get an error message about turning it 
> on. If I type:
>   ifdown wlan0
>   ifup wlan0
>
> It then comes back up okay. My guess is that something else is getting 
> to the card first and trying to start it up unsuccesfully, then the 
> network script is coming in and can't do it because the first one 
> messed it up.
>
> I have the following to /etc/network/interfaces (Xed out the sercutiy 
> stuff)
>    auto wlan0
>    iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>       gateway 192.168.1.1
>       wireless mode managed
>       wireless_essid XXXXX
>       wireless_enc on
>       wlan_ng_key0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
>     
> No other files were touched, I was under the impression this should be 
> enough. Was I wrong?
>
> Jesse Hein