On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
Hello,
I have an IBM ThinkPad T-30 with a Linksys wireless card which receives
its signal from a Linksys wireless router. It is working fine but what I
would like to know is this: How can I get the card to automatically get an IP
address upon bootup. I am using Fedora Core 6 and wpa_supplicant for WPA2
encryption. What file has to be edited in order to make this happen? Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
system-config-network apparently still doesn't support WPA. Your best
first bet is to use NetworkManager. To try it,
# /sbin/service network stop
# /sbin/service NetworkManager start
You should then see the nm-applet icon in your task bar (at least in
GNOME--in KDE you may have to start the applet yourself). Left-click to
select a network and fill in the keys at the prompt.
If it works,
# /sbin/chkconfig network off
# /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on
to start NM at boot.
NM connects you on login, not at boot (yet). I don't know how to manually
configure connect on boot to WPA.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
