John Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi Mikkel,
> 
> ifcfg-wlan0 is pointing to the MAC address of the hardware so that isn't it.  
> I did remove a line that had no variable set and I'll see if that does any 
> good.
> 
> I'm keeping on beating my head against that brick wall. :-)
> 
> ttfn
> 
> John
>
John,
 You have lost me here. What do you mean when you say ifcfg-wlan0 is
pointing to the MAC address? If you are using "HWADDR=<MAC address>",
you still need the correct "DEVICE=<something>" statment.

The "DEVICE=<something>" statment in the ifcfg-wlan0 file is what
determins what device is being set. If it is something like
"DEVICE=eth0" instead of "DEVICE=wlan0", then you will get the type of
errors you have reported.

Here is one that works:
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID="AP_ROUTER"
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=1234-5678-6804-3A0D-BDCB-487E-00
WIRELESS_IWCONFIG="key restricted"
NEEDHOSTNAME=no

It is for a loptop cardbus card. For a built-in card, you would probably
want to change ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes.

You may want to read the section in
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.61.1/sysconfig.txt about ifcfg-<device> files.

Mikkel
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