On Saturday 19 March 2005 09:03 pm, Donald Greg McGahan dgmcgahan-at-yahoo.com |lugod| wrote: > New to Linux so pardon if this is not not clearly asked......but here > goes.... > I have Slackware running on a Toshiba notebook. > It has a miniPCI wireless card. > I've figured out how to connect to my home wireless router by running a > script > > #!/bin/bash > iwconfig eth1 essid name key [1] XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX > dhcpcd eth1 > > Now when I turn on the notebook at home I'd like to have the start up > recognize the essid name and run this script and just connect or is > there a better way such as the rc.wireless.conf? Seems like I should be > able to look for this essid first then if it does not exist go to say > Moobilenet then look for an unsecured access point.
Most distros are able to run a script when an interface is brought up. I'm not familiar with slackware, but I know it can be done in debian. Each distro tends to handle network initialization in a diffrent way, so you'll need to talk to a slackware person. I have changed he subject to get someone who knows how to do this to respond ;) -- Ryan Castellucci - http://ryanc.org/ GPG Key: http://ryanc.org/files/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
