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Title: How do I connect to wlan on boot?
Post by: paulpthcom on September 02, 2004, 12:37:04 pm

I have a 5000 and WCF11 and I can use the wireless applet to manually start my wlan connection.  However I haven't figured out a way to do this at boot time, can someone please help?  I've tried a ton of cardctl combinations but nothing seems to work.

Title: How do I connect to wlan on boot?
Post by: CoreDump on September 08, 2004, 12:19:38 pm

If your WLAN card is configured propperly in /etc/network/interfaces it will be started
automatically on boot and card insertion.

Works for me on OZ 3.3.6-pre1.

Title: How do I connect to wlan on boot?
Post by: cvmiller on September 10, 2004, 12:50:43 pm

Sharp changed things in the ROM, so that this worked in 2.x but not in 3.x

Still it shouldn't be that hard to create a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d which would bring up the wireless interface.

Or it _could_ be even easier. I see the file /etc/sysconfig/network which has NETWORKING=no

I haven't tried it, but setting that to yes, along with the rest of the networking info you require (IP address, gateway...) might work for you.

I hope this helps,

Craig...