I have a cisco aironet in a PCI adapter, the card works fine if I iwconfig then ifconfig.

How do I get it to start during boot?

I'm too used to the RH network config files in /etc/sysconfig/

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Doesn't netcardconfig work?

Man you are fast Cecil,

Netcardconfig does not appear to work it pauses after answering yes to use DHCP broadcast (the first question). It doesn't seem to do anything. I'm going to check the log to see what it is doing.

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Fantastic software BTW.

Okay, it errors out.

It does try to bring up eth0 then pump eth0 but that doesn't work.

iwconfig shows some correct looking stats.

/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart

makes the network card come up but after a certain amount of time something disables it (apmd? power management?)

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I don't know what would shut it down.. I don't have wireless card. Some folks in the past have gotten them to work. Perhaps one will chime in and help out. This info would also be handy for R5.

I have a netgear wireless pci card installed, it works fine but I have to run netcardconfig if I reboot. I am new to a deb dist. so I am not sure how to get it to start on boot. BTW I could not get it to work with DHCP, had to manually enter IP info.

Sean

if you go to www.cisco.com you can download ACU (aironet client utility) for linux.
there is a tool called bcard which you need to run by rc.d, which burns the wifi-settings to the card. there is a detailed readme included.
hth
zardoz

Another option is to script the commands on boot. Here is the end of my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up

/usr/bin/echo "0 11:11:11:11:11:11:11:11:11:11:11:11:11" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/WepKey

/usr/bin/echo "1 22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22:22" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/WepKey

/usr/bin/echo "2 33:33:33:33:33:33:33:33:33:33:33:33:33" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/WepKey

/usr/bin/echo "3 44:44:44:44:44:44:44:44:44:44:44:44:44" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/WepKey

/usr/bin/echo "0" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/WepKey

/usr/bin/echo "WEP: shared" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config

/usr/bin/echo "Security#7180SSID" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/SSID

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.105 255.255.255.0

/sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0/0 gw 192.168.0.1

I am going to leave it on you to figure out how to automate this in your distribution.

HTH

well since knoppmyth is based on debian I would imagine that using the /etc/network/interfaces script would be the easiest way.

Here's mine for my pure debian system which uses wireless. This requires that the wireless tools are installed if you want to use essid and password etc.

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless_essid mynetwork
wireless_mode managed

# address 192.168.2.5
# netmask 255.255.255.0
# gateway 192.168.2.1

I use dhcp but you could uncomment the last few lines and change dhcp to static if you are assigning manually.