Automating Wireless

mattp · 01-15-2006, 11:50 PM

I have my wireless card working for my laptop. To get it working, I needed to enter the following commands:

rc.pcmcia start (only if the card was not in at boot)
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid ditelnet
iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXXXXXXX
ifconfig wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.111.29 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.111.1

Is there anyway I can get all this to go automatically when I stick the card in?

Anarchon · 01-16-2006, 10:42 AM

can't you just stick it in a script and you'll need only 1 command to get started ?

mattp · 01-16-2006, 04:55 PM

I tried that. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. It depends on if I was connected to a different network previously or not. I am really looking for a solution that will be completely automated: I pop in the card, and I'm connected. I pull out the card, and I am disconnected, ndiswrapper unloaded nicely, etc.

Anarchon · 01-17-2006, 02:54 AM

for this different network problem you should define if the routes towards this other network remain in your routing table if it's in the same range. And if not then you could just try to bring down your network interface ? (and eventually bring it back up)

But I think you need to use 'hotplug' to do what you want, read the manpage.

Let me know how things go.

mattp · 01-19-2006, 11:13 AM

Thanks. Sometimes my laptop freezes when the PCMCIA card is in. As soon as I pull it out it unfreezes. I don't like doing that though because pulling it out without running rc.pcmcia stop can't be good for anything. Any ideas on that?