Doh! I figured out the problem. The changes I copied from http://www.cybcon.com/~coert/linux/siso/ap-scripts-madwifi.html referenced wpa_supplicant as being in /usr/local/sbin rather than /usr/sbin and the wpa_supplicant.conf file as being in /etc/sysconfig rather than /etc. Once I fixed those the wlan0 connection was automatically made. I am still seeing one non-fatal error during the execution of the ifup-wireless script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts... Bringing up interface wlan0: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : invalid argument "wireless_password". Any one know if that can be suppressed and how? I am a little confused on the relationship between wpa_supplicant and iwconfig. My current ifup-wireless executes wpa_supplicant at the tail end after all the iwconfig calls. So I am guessing iwconfig is trying to use the KEY from keys-wlan0 on its own instead of waiting for wpa_supplicant. FYI, I didn't create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/keys-wlan0. It seemed to have been autocreated somehow. Jack ps Will FC5 have wpa_supplicant integrated into the initscripts?
