On 07/23/2010 06:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: >> /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup is not designed to run with >> wireless. It really wants a standard wired eth0 type of network interface. >> Hmmmmm. That's new, and good, info. But by adding the line below I got it to make my NIC ready for dhclient. It just "bailed" with no errors. I think there's no SERVICE variable and I can't find where it's set. >> Wireless is a difficult topic. You have wlan0. Not all wireless nics >> have the same device. If you are configuring a laptop, getting it to >> connect to different access points requires a fair amount of work. >> Yeah, I know. If I want to be truly mobile and ultimately seamless, I'm gonna have to pull info from the AP and store it in a file somewhere. I think, as you say below, that means wpa_supplicant. I understood almost half of the README. :) >> http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/WirelessTools >> >> I doubt I'll respond any more to this thread as I don't think I can >> contribute more than the above. >> How you've responded now is a great help. Thanks for the link. Didn't think to look under Wireless Tools. It's really a good starting point.
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