Re: Setting up dhclient

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:

> > The only last thing that would be really really nice is to have it 
> > automatically run ifconfig for the interface to set up the wireless 
> > SSID and WEP key.  I can plug in the interface, but dhcpcd just waits 
> > for carrier until I configure the interface manually.
>
> Do you run wpa_supplicant?  I find that that (usually) DTRT.

No, I just have simple WEP to keep the neighbors from sucking up my 
bandwidth!  So I just have the ssid and nwkey in my /etc/ifconfig.xxx


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