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[Craig Dyke <grail69 AT amnet.net.au>]

Hi Juuso

I followed the HowTo but this only changed step 2 below to now use:

telinit run wpa_supplicant start

Now I can use a script to do this if I have to. Just wondering if the
existing scripts have a way to do this?

Cheers
Craig

Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Monday 13 August 2007 13:54:13 Craig Dyke wrote:
>   
> > Hi All
> >
> > I am relatively new to setting up a wireless connection and have hit a snag
> > as to how to do it the SourceMage way.
> >
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 which uses the ipw3945 driver.
> >
> > Currently I am doing the following steps to get my access to work:
> >
> > 1. modprobe ipw3945 (this has been cast and installed)
> > 2. wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -ieth2 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant
> > 3. dhcpd eth2
> >
> > Now while I am happy that this works, I wanted to know what the secret
> > is to getting
> > either netconf or wpa_supplicant scripts to do this for me (or is some
> > combination of the
> > 2 are required, what that would be)
> >
> > I would appreciate if someone would point me in the right direction :)
> >     
>
> Hi! You may find this helpful: http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Wireless_Howto
>
> Please tell me if you find flaws of any kind in the document, I'll update it 
> accordingly.
>
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