On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:43 -0500, Justin Conover wrote: > This might look ugly, but I just make a little script in my users dir > and run it as root when ever I go wireless. > > [justin@tank laptop]$ more wireless.sh > /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down > /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart > /sbin/iwconfig eth1 key <yours> > /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid <yours> > /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up > /sbin/dhclient eth1 > Oh I'm very familiar with wireless-tools to assign ESSIDs and whatnot. What I experienced is I would set an ESSID (no key, wide open) but iwconfig wouldn't show the wireless device bound to it, nor would a dhclient find a DHCP server to get an address from. Now my problem is that it won't even load the firmware. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating