Wireless Interface - Startup

[jendacot]

I am using a Cisco Aironet pcmcia wireless interface. Within the Network Settings utility this is listed as eth1 & eth2. If I reboot, I have to open the Network Settings utility and manually activate eth1.

Any thoughts please?

[sky]

Re: Wireless Interface - Startup

Hi,

Can you please post /etc/network/interfaces (if there's no password)
Maybe you miss the auto keyword...
it should be like this if you use dhcp :
auto eth1 eth2
iface eth1 inet dhcp
iface eth2 inet dhcp

[jendacot]

Re: Wireless Interface - Startup

Looks ok, see below!


auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

mapping hotplug
script grep
map eth1

# The primary network interface
iface eth1 inet dhcp
# wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
wireless-mode managed
wireless-essid ACTIONTEC

iface eth2 inet dhcp
wireless-essid ACTIONTEC

auto eth1

auto eth2

[sky]

Re: Wireless Interface - Startup

I would put auto eth1 eth2 before the iface lines. Not sure, it's this, but it can be...