I am having a problem with my wireless card. I know that there is a wireless networking forum, but the problem is with the boot-up process.

When my system boots, it does not properly set up the card before trying to get an IP address via DHCP. Once I boot, I can open up a root console and type:

iwconfig wlan0 channel 8
iwconfig wlan0 essid NETGEAR
dhclient wlan0

and everything is fine network-wise. Then I have t o manually mount my server's shares, and restart the apps that count on them. How do I have the system do this for me before X loads? I notice the scripts aren't exactly like a DOS batch file. What is that? Python?

Thank you in advance
RK

Anyone?

I found it!!!!

Yee-haw

I found the configuration file that was messing me up.

I downloaded all my scripts to my laptop at work (it's a slow day) and was reading the scripts through and I found a reference to scripts I hadn't noticed before. While I was looking for one of the scripts, I ran across a config file I had manually edited.

I had removed an ethernet card after I was done with installation. I wanted to remove the error during bootup and found /etc/network/interfaces. I commented out the lines of the ethernet and tweaked the wireless. Unfortunately, this is where I messed up. It was my boo-boo. When I saw it, I smacked myself in the forehead for not paying attention.

I edited the file here at work, uploaded to my PC and sent it a reboot command. I waited a bit and was able to connect which means that, since I wasn't there, it connected on it's own.

In case someone else runs into this, this is my new /etc/network/interfaces file (which works):


# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
#name Ethernet LAN card

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
name Wireless LAN card
wireless_essid NETGEAR


Take note of the last line. The old version had an essid of 'mshome' which is my workgroup, not my essid.

Thanks,
RK