[no subject]

You still should enable WEP. Wandering folks can pick out your data stream from
out of thin air. Without encription, it could plain text.

> At school, however, we have 128 bit WEP.  Does anyone on the list know how to 
> get it so that when I boot, it can figure out where I am and configure 
> accordingly, or alternatively how I can get grub to boot to a specific net 
> configuration? 

It's a problem I started working on a while ago. But then I switched laptops
and upgraded and the script is archived somewhere. Basically I modified the
/etc/pcmcia/wireless script that runs upon wireless card detection to
try to connect to each network I was interested in. It worked in principal
but I never got it cleaned up.

> 
> I currently just let the network auto-detect fail, then manually run a script 
> that sets iwconfig options and then does an "ifup eth0" at the end.  This is 
> hackish and while it works, I'd like to find out how one goes about doing 
> this the "right" way.  Thanks for the input!

It works. So it's the right way. It's just not automatic. 

BTW on my new laptop, I do it the same way. It's not great but it works.

Maybe if I ever get a minute I may get back to it.

One trick that I've employed is to set up home with the same WEP name and
key as school. Then there's only one "network" to connect to.

BAJ


</pre>
<!--X-Body-of-Message-End-->
<!--X-MsgBody-End-->
<!--X-Follow-Ups-->
<hr>
<!--X-Follow-Ups-End-->
<!--X-References-->
<ul><li><strong>References</strong>:
<ul>
<li><strong><a name="00871" href="msg00871.html">[ale] multiple network setups (wireless)?</a></strong>
<ul><li><em>From:</em> jloden at toughguy.net (Jay Loden)</li></ul></li>
</ul></li></ul>
<!--X-References-End-->
<!--X-BotPNI-->
<ul>
<li>Prev by Date:
<strong><a href="msg00873.html">[ale] interz0ne conference</a></strong>
</li>
<li>Next by Date:
<strong><a href="msg00875.html">[ale] problems with Cendyne 32x10x40 USB CD-RW with SUSE,	9.2 and FC3</a></strong>
</li>
<li>Previous by thread:
<strong><a href="msg00871.html">[ale] multiple network setups (wireless)?</a></strong>
</li>
<li>Next by thread:
<strong><a href="msg00876.html">[ale] multiple network setups (wireless)?</a></strong>
</li>
<li>Index(es):
<ul>
<li><a href="maillist.html#00874"><strong>Date</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="threads.html#00874"><strong>Thread</strong></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>

<!--X-BotPNI-End-->
<!--X-User-Footer-->
<!--X-User-Footer-End-->
</body>
</html>