martin jakubik wrote:
Hello, I'm a newbie. I've got wireless working on my Debian, but I have to log in as admin to start it. I'd like to know how I can get it to load on bootup. I've got a Linksys WPC54G card. I'm using ndiswrapper to run my driver. ndiswrapper loads up normally on boot. Currently, to get my network up, I have to su iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxxx essid my-network dhclient Then I get my connection. I've tried putting some iwconfig stuff in both /etc/network/interfaces and etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, but nothing seems to happen. What should I do to get this loading during boot, and how can I test what's going on? thanks, martin
Create this script in your /etc/init.d directory:
#!/bin/sh
# wireless.config
case "$1" in
"start")
iwconfig eth2 essid networkEssid key 1 s:password
dhclient eth2 &
;;
"stop")
;;
"restart"|"force-reload")
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Now run on the command line:
update-rc.d wireless.config defaults
Now next time you reboot all this will be done for you. Don't forget to
change your essid and any encryption values to the ones you have setup
on your network. Also, eth2 may not be your wireless device, change
that accordingly.
Good luck! Clinton