[Cialug] wireless linux laptop

[David Champion]

What distro are you running? In RedHat / Mandrake systems, you can put 
that stuff in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx file. 
Making it say "ONBOOT=YES" will make it, er, yes, on boot.

Mandrake 10.1 has enhanced the network admin interface to deal with the 
AP / WEP settings pretty well. There's apparantly a way to make it 
automagically switch AP's. I still use my old dave-o-matic version, 
where I have a shell script I run to copy the correct ifcfg-ethx file 
over & restart the interface.

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> I have a iwconfig line that works for my laptop now: iwconfig eth0 essid
> xxxyyy enc 1010affetc ap any
> 
> how can I make the line be run when I boot the machine?  Do I add this to
> rc.local just as it is, or are there other options?  If my distro uses
> something different from rc.local, what should I look for
> (slack/debian-ish).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Nate