On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:02:10AM +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote: > Hey list, > > i have 2 laptops, with those i can either connect via rj-45 or via > wireless. I use (at this stage) WPA to authenticate on wirless. > > The thing is, that fc tries just to init eth0 on bootup, not wlan0. So, > all the following networking functionalities will fail. > > How can i: > > - tell the bootprocess to check also for the existance of wlan0 ? > - start wpa_supplicant only if wlan0 needs to be booted? > > should i try to handle this issue on the bootscript for eth0 itself? > > Thanks for any help > Roger > I don't know if I understand the problem completely but two solutions see possible: 1. Manual approach - configure eth) not to come up on boot. If the wlan fails then bring up eth0 manually. 2. Configure both interfaces not ot come up on boot. In /etc/rc.d/rc.local place a script that first tries to bring up the wlan0. If the fails the eth0 interface is brought up. ifup <interface name> brings up interfaces. -- ======================================================================= What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. -- Christopher Fry ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
