Hw Start Wireless @ Boot

Branta · 02-06-2007, 12:33 AM

How do I start my wireless card at boot?

I can set it up manually and would like a command line instruction to write the following up to a file that is executed at boot.

A driver for my card is installed by MEPIS using ndiswrapper.

I do this to start wlan0:

Code:

iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid FON_Olympic
dhclient wlan0

I don't think I need dhclient wlan0

Is there an instruction that will write the wireless network to a file that starts my wireless at boot?

TU,

Bob

Running: SimplyMEPIS 6.0-4

kilgoretrout · 02-06-2007, 08:57 PM

You don't need "iwlist wlan0 scan"; you do need the other two however. The iwlist command will just give a printout of wireless access points and ad hoc wireless networks in range. You already know the essid of the wireless access point you want to hook up to so the iwlist command is unnecessary.
In non-debian distros you would just put these two lines at the end of the init script, /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

Code:

iwconfig wlan0 essid FON_Olympic
dhclient wlan0

Since mepis is debian based, rc.local may not exists. Check and post back if that's the case.