-- i looked at the ifup- device file and all greek to me am i suposed to editthat file with the correct settings? or does the
ifcfg-device file get read into the ifup-device file? sound
confusing?
is to me
No, you are not supposed to edit ifup and ifup-wireless files. Even if you do, they'd get overwritten when you upgrade initscripts package.
Basically, those two files are shell scripts. At the beggining of each file, there's comment section describing various settings you can place in ifcfg-* and other configuration files. If you know anything about shell scripting, by looking in them you can see what files they will read for various options. What I missed is that keys-* config files will also be read by them (indirectly, from network-functions script which is sourced somewhere at the begining of ifup).
So, if your wireless device is eth0 (for example), you can place the KEY line in either network, ifcfg-eth0 or keys-eth0 file (keys-eth0 seems to be preferred location, place it there and make file readable only by root). If you need to have more than one key, you can place them in variables KEY1, KEY2, KEY3, and KEY4 (up to four keys, limitation of the script), and specify with DEFAULTKEY wich one is the default key (for example DEFAULTKEY=3). Check the man page for iwconfig for format of the KEY. It sould be in the same format as iwconfig's key option. Per man page, passphrase is not yet supported.
-- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
