On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 19:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 01:34 +0200, Patrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have a PC with F8 & a usb wifi dongle and I would like to configure > > the PC that when it boots it will automagically negotiate a WPA2/PSK > > 802.11g link with my Access Point and get an IP address from the DHCP > > server behind the AP. > > Given that the Wifi is via a USB dongle, the first order of business > would be to make sure your system recognizes it and has the appropriate > drivers. Can you use iwconfig, iwlist etc? It's a Speedtouch ST121G and it works fine with ndiswrapper. It lists the available networks with iwlist wlan0 scan. > If that all works then you need to look at configuring wpa_supplicant, > which is where the WPA stuff is handled. It in turn may need to > interact with dhclient and then of course you want to start it up on > boot. I've managed to do this once in a while on Ubuntu and Fedora, but > it is definitely a head-banger to get going. Once it works you don't > touch anything and it generally keeps working. Google is your friend :-) Ok that sounds like a start. I'll look into wpa_supplicant. Any idea if I have to configure system-network-services too? Thanks, Patrick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
