James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> 
> So, boy-o-boy, I would be your friend forever if you could actually show
> (some) recipes for the complete commandline sequence for wireless
> setup/shutdown -- including dhclient and wep_supplicant (as req'd),
> ..pleeeease.

I have no idea about wep_supplicant as I have never used it.

I have experience with very few cards, and my iwconfig experience comes
from not wanting to mess around with difficult (read: Debian's)
interfaces file.

# modprobe ipw2200
# iwconfing eth1 essid $SSID
# iwconfig eth1 key $KEY
# dhclient eth1


# iwconfig eth1 essid any
# iwconfig eth1 key off    (or none, I forget which.)
# dhclient eth1


You may need to replace eth1 with wlan0 or the like. With my USB wifi
adapter, I run an ``ifup wlan0'' and that starts the NDIS wrapper magic,
so I could probably skip the modprobe part if I completely wanted to
avoid relying upon any ifupdown magick.

There is a lot more to iwconfig, but I find I only need to set the essid
and key for the three networks (home, work, and coffee shop) networks I
am on. I keep interfaces(5) set for home, as that is the one with the
key and non-any ESSID.

-john


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