Networking :: Wireless card auto configure on boot



Well, after a long battle with this little beasty, I finally got my Airlink 101 wireless USB adapter to work! (Sort of)  

I see there are still many unanswered questions about the process, after I get things all iron out, I will hopefully post a complete recap of what I did to help anyone else along but first.....

When the system boots, the adapter shows up in ifconfig as wlan0, but the interface is down, the lights are off on the adapter.  If I do ifconfig wlan0 up, the lights come on, but it does not connect to my router. If I go to the contral panel, I can use the iwconfig tool to connect, and all is good. So far this is a major accomplishment, but I want more.

How do I set this up to auto up and connect the wlan0 port on boot? Most of the things I find for debian say to use the /etc/network/interfaces file, but it seems to do no good here.  Also, I have a copper port, eth0 on the box to. It is auto configured at boot, yet I can not find any config info about this port in any etc files.  Perhaps if someone could point me toward the files that manage the eth0 being auto detected and brought up, I could figure out how to get the wlan0 up.  

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bryan
Well, I do not know if this is proper, but it works fine....

Added "/usr/local/bin/iwconfig.sh wlan0 2>&1>/dev/null" to the /opt/bootlocal.sh and it plumbs up just fine on boot.

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If I go to the contral panel, I can use the iwconfig tool to connect, and all is good. So far this is a major accomplishment, but I want more.


If you are using a later version of DSL, you are prompted to save your working wireless connection upon shutdown.

original here.