getting wireless on startup

daven1986 · 4 Dec 2006 at 01:21

right i have now got my wireless working i am on fedora core 6 using wpa_supplicant, the wpa_supplicant gui and acer_acpi.

when i boot up i have to first restart wpa_supplicant. then i have to open the gui, and connect to my network, then i have to either activate the wireless in the network section OR do /sbin/ifup eth1.

this is tiresome to do everytime i boot up, is there a way to get it to do all this while it boots up?

thanks

daven

FirebarUK · 4 Dec 2006 at 09:27

You could make a script and shove a line referencing it into /etc/rc.local. This is what I do.

daven1986 · 4 Dec 2006 at 10:43

yeah i was thinking about doing that, however how would i make the wpa_supplicant connect with the wireless as i do this using the gui. also how would i make it wait until it had got a connection THEN get it to do ifup eth1?

thanks

daven

Dj_Jestar · 4 Dec 2006 at 10:51

add a startup script to your rc or init scripts. Read through the doco's for wpa_* as the GUI will just be running commands for you, anyway.

daven1986 · 4 Dec 2006 at 10:52

ok thanks will check them out