Re: starting wireless connection on boot

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

martin jakubik wrote:
> > Your /etc/network/interfaces should look something like:
> >
> > iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> > wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
> > wireless-essid my-network
>
>
> Thanks a lot. I just got a chance to test this.
> Unfortunately, it doesn't "work". In other words:
> 1) I put the above in my /etc/network/interfaces
> 2) I commented out any lines with eth0 for good measure
> 3) but when I boot up and ping, I get:
> ping -c 5 www.google.com
> ping: unknown host www.google.com

did you include

auto wlan0

?

> Then, as per my original message, when I:
> su
> iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxxxxxxx essid my-network
> dhclient wlan0
>
> ... it works.
>
>
> > Also, make sure that ndiswrapper gets loaded before /etc/init.d/networking
>
>
> Maybe this is the problem. How do I make sure ndiswrapper is loaded
> before networking? ... I'm clueless about how to control start-up
> scripts.

ls /etc/rc?.d where ? is the runlevel you're interested in. each symlink 
has a S or K and a number in the front of the name. such as

S35networking

or

K90sysklogd

the S means Start, K means Kill. the number is what order to execute in. 
1 comes first ;).

A
> martin