Config file for hostap_pci??

[Jason Boxman]

On Sunday 20 October 2002 04:14 am, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> On Sunday 20 October 2002 07:27, Michael Milligan shaped the electrons to
>
<snip>
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
>         wireless_essid  Antoli
>         wireless_mode   Managed
>         wireless_key    s:mykey
>         wireless_rate   auto
>         wireless_nick   sofi
> #       wireless_power  period 2
> #       wireless_power  1
> #       wireless_power  timeout 300u all

It was always my impression those needed to be prefixed with "up":

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        up /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid vortex && \
        /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 channel 1

The above works for me on boot for a PCI card.

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