Starting wireless card on boot

Jose Muñiz · 05-12-2004, 11:16 PM

Hello! I just configured my Intel PRO Wireless 2100 Network Card using the Linuxant Driverloader. However, when the computer boots, there's no Internet Connection. I have to activate the network device using Fedora Core's Network Configuration.

Is there any way it can be done automatically? I don't understand why it doesn't

Jose Muñiz · 05-13-2004, 08:27 AM

I solved it. I saw this post on linuxquestions.org after searching for information again.

Quote:

LOADING THE DRIVER
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You need to configure the device for your particular distribution. The steps
below will work on Red Hat, Fedora, and other similar distributions.

First, create a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ called ifcfg-eth1
(or eth2, etc. as appropriate). Place the following within it:

DEVICE=eth1
onBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Wireless

LavaDevil94 · 05-13-2004, 09:24 AM

I was curious on how to do this as well, Ill try it. Thanks for posting your solution.