On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Aaron Bennett wrote:
> Can somene tell me what goes on "behind the scenes" of
> redhat-config-network-gui? Especially with regard to creating a new
> wireless connection with this tool.
You really need to poke around in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts to
understand what's going on.
> Activating the card doesn't work, and it never gets an IP address and
> never contacts the nearest WAP.
>
> However, if I then do:
>
> iwconfig eth1 key {OUR WEP KEY},
>
> followed by /sbin/service network restart,
>
> it works. However, after the next reboot, it doesn't work again, and
> iwconfig shows no wep key.
have you got a KEY="YOUR WEP KEY" line in
/etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth1 ?
> Thanks,
> Aaron Bennett
Best Regards,
Alex.
