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keeper

Member

From: North Canton, OH USA

Registered: 2004-02-18

Posts: 15

Wireless boot scripts

I use the atheros driver(madwifi). I am able to start the wireless card by doing: ifconfig ath0 up
                iwconfig ath0 essid XXXXXX
                keyXXXXXXXX

keeper

Member

From: North Canton, OH USA

Registered: 2004-02-18

Posts: 15

Re: Wireless boot scripts

Let me try this again. I apologize. Hit the wrong key.
I can connect wirelessly by doing this:
ifconfig ath0 up
iwconfig ath0 essid @@@@@
key @@@@@
dhcpcd ath0
When I try to use the wireless scripts and do /etc/rc.d/wireless start it tells me that my profile is not found. I have the profile in /etc/conf./wireless-profiles/ath0
and I also entered WIRELESS_PROFILES=(ath0) in /etc/rc.conf.
It would be nice to connect at boot time. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Regards,
Mike

Again, I apologize for the scrambled first post.

phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Wireless boot scripts

Hmmm the wireless scripts in the wiki are a bit dated... there's official ones in the testing repo, I'd recommend using the initscripts package from there.

But if you'd like to keep using my scripts, the profile should be /etc/conf.d/wireless-profiles/ath0/config

see here for a sample

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http://phraktured.net

keeper

Member

From: North Canton, OH USA

Registered: 2004-02-18

Posts: 15

Re: Wireless boot scripts

Thanks for the quick reply. I've not used arch for quite a while and i guess I need to relearn. So, when I pacman -S the initscripts package, do I have to edit any of them. Those are the scripts in /etc/rc.d/wireless and /etc/conf.d/wireless??  Thanks again.

Regards,
Mike