[Prism54-users] slightly OT: SMC2835W - How to automate network setup?

[Nicolai Langfeldt]

Stefan U. Hegner (Mobil) wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> my prism54 driver seems to work ... But I need to do a couple of things
> manually after inserting the cardbus card to my notebook. How can I
> automate this?

> In order to esatablish an IP connection I need to do the following:
> - iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
> - iwconfig eth1 essid "myessid"
> - dhclient eth1
> - route add default gw my.default.gate.way
> 
> I thought, to automate this, you use the wireless.opts file. In mine it
> says:

What to do is distribution specific.  Atempt any network config tool 
that it may have first.

But then I suggest you read your distributions ifup - or whatever script 
it uses to take up interfaces.  On Redhat they have several different 
hooks for pre-up and wireless initialization, and in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-post they hook to /sbin/ifup-local 
as a post-up script.

Nicolai