On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:21:42PM +0100, 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?
Your /etc/network/interfaces should look something like:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX
wireless-essid my-network
Also, make sure that ndiswrapper gets loaded before /etc/init.d/networking
- Ryan
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