On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:53:12AM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 2:10 pm, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx flailed at a keyboard > and produced this: > > > In my precious message on your problem I forgot to mention that you > > need pcmcia properly configured . Has that been done? > > I assume so, since the wireless device *does* work. It's seen at boot (I can > see it coming up during the start-up dialogue). It just doesn't work unless > I execute those commands at root. > > Incidentally, I've found that these two commands are all that I need: > > # iwconfig wlan0 key restricted <my-key> > # ifconfig wlan0 <ip-address> > > Since I've decided to use a static IP address for the computer on my home > network. I still need to execute these manually if I want to use the > wireless card. > First, I am well aware that one can get eth0 not to come up on boot. But I was just trying to get Fedora to do what that dreaded M$ operating system does, which is, that when it detects that the eth0 interface is not connected does npt bring the interface up. But I still don't see why you don't bring up the interface by the command: ifup wlan0 -- ======================================================================= Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal. -- Zaphod Beeblebrox ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
