[Nottingham] save iwconfig settings

[david wolfson]

Well, I think I sorted it. The problem was that when the key was being 
entered in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 (weather by 
iwconfig or the gui, I'm not sure) it was being prefixed with an 's' to 
denote a string. I dont; know why, but once removed, things seem to work 
better.

Cheers for the advise,

Dave



david wolfson wrote:

> Before christmas I made the mistake of thinking that the reason I 
> couldn't get a network connection was to do with my network setting 
> rather than our ISP glitching. As a result I foolishly tinkered and 
> lost the working wi-fi setup for my laptop. A couple of hours 
> yesterday, and I have it back (and understand it a lot better!). I 
> have one problem though; each time I reboot I have to reset the wep 
> key with iwconfig. The key appears to be saved in all the usual places 
> (ifcfg-wlan0), and iwconfig rememebers the ESSID ok (the access point 
> doesn't broadcast).  I've googled on things like 'iwconfig save' but 
> nothing I've come across seems to have worked.
>
> Any idea on a fix for this please? I can always work around with 
> another script, but didn;t need to before...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
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