Thanks. I'll try it when I get home! I'm using FC1 On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 16:21, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > No, it will not be retained to the next boot. What distro are you using? > > If you want this to be a consistent setting, you'll have to put it into your > startup scripts somewhere. I use Mandrake 10.0, and it has a network > configuration frontend that lets me specify an essid, wep, etc. that it > automatically uses at boot. Otherwise, you can just track down where in your > startup scripts the system calls iwconfig for the last time, and modify some > setting there. > > Or, you could put it in rc.local which I think is generally one of the last > things to run. > > Michael > > On Thursday 13 May 2004 01:43 pm, Roy Vestal wrote: > > Does this "store" the info so at the next boot I don't have to retype the > > iwconfig line? I also read about putting this in ifcfg-eth1 as entries and > > tried that with a reboot and it didn't work. > > > > Used to wireless, new to WEP, > > R > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Michael Hrivnak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:54 AM > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] wep and linux > > > > > Don't restart networking. After you issue that command, do: > > > > > > iwconfig > > > > > > to make sure you're connecting to the proper access point. Then use > > > your favorite dhcp client: > > > > > > dhclient eth1 > > > > > > and you should be good to go. > > > > > > Michael > > > > > > Roy Vestal wrote: > > > >I've tried to set my wep key using the following; > > > >iwconfig eth1 key 123abc456def7 essid "asc123" > > > > > > > >However, when i restart networking "service network restart" under FC1, > > > >I jump BACK on my neighbor's wireless. > > > > > > > >Any suggestions? > > > > > > -- > > > TriLUG mailing list : > > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ > > > : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
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