Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> If you create an ifdown-wireless script, it should get called >> automatically. You can look at the /sbin/ifdown script to see what >> script it looks for, and when they are run. >> > [...] > > Your suggestion didn't work, because near the bottom of > /sbin/ifdown it had: > DEVICE = wlan0 > DEVICETYPE = eth > whereas in order to work as indicated, it needed: > DEVICETYPE=wireless > . > This looks like a bug to me but I am sure there will be better > informed judgments. In any case, the information provided > allowed me to easily hack the result I needed. Maybe you need to say "TYPE=wireless" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland