I am changing my various important machines at home from DHCP to static IP. I have my slackware poweredge 4300 file server and my sun ultra 60 solaris plaything setup correctly, as they are wired it was fairly simple. My main box that I use for everything is slackware and has a NX server setup on it so I can connect remotely, but it is wireless and using DHCP. Depending on what other computers log on to the network and when my main box ends up on a different IP, hence my router no longer forwards the NX data through the firewall to the correct computer.

I know it's probably easy and I am missing something, but I searched and cannot find how to setup my wireless adapter for a static IP at boot.

All help is much appreciated.


Mike

I think that you can setup a boot script or some lines to setup your wlan0 at boot time. You should read the man pages for ifconfig, iwpriv, iwconfig and related commands. My wireless card isn't setup right this instant, I just switched back from FreeBSD recently. These lines might work for you, if they don't see the man pages for ifconfig, iwconfig, etc.. Something like this.


try:
#double qoutes needed
#keyword any is needed
#WARNING these lines don't set the network key, so people can jack your wlan, read man pages for those commands

echo " iwconfig [name_of_wireless_device] [essid] key [encryption_key_in_hex] any " >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
echo "iconfig [name_of_wireless_device] up" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Check the wlan how-to in your '/usr/share/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/' or on tldp.org if you don't have HOWTOs installed. I think that your not all that new to Unix, Solaris- the stable unfriendly beast I'v heard.