Subject: Re: Airport at boot
From: Scott Kellogg (scott@kiva.net)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 12:06:41 MST
Thank for replying.
It looks like our setup is different, though. I'm not using encryption on
my network, so issuing modprobe with the network name is sufficient to get
the network running. I think the problem may be that it takes a little
while for the DHCP server to hand out a lease, and rc.local doesn't want
to wait to get one.
If there a way to get rc.local to wait until it gets an IP to continue?
/Scott
On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Joe Buczek wrote:
>Here's what I added to rc.local that works for me. I'm
>running YDL 2.1 on an Icebook 2001:
>
>##################################################
># Bring up the Airport card
>##################################################
> echo "Airport: initializing..."
> /sbin/modprobe airport
> iwconfig eth1 essid "MyNetwork"
> echo "Airport: configured"
>
>I wasn't aware you could pass the essid to the airport
>module when loading it, as you do. Perhaps my script
>is braindead, but hey, it works on my machine!
>
>--Joe
>
>
>--- Scott Kellogg <scott@kiva.net> wrote:
>> Hello list -
>>
>> I am running kernel 2.4.10a (I think, I'm on a
>> different box right now)
>> and have successfully configured Airport. I did
>> this by adding
>>
>> /sbin/modprobe airport network_name "MyNetwork"
>>
>> to /etc/rc.d/rc/local. Also,
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 is
>> associating the interface to a DHCP server.
>>
>> When I boot, during initialization of eth1, I get
>> the message
>> "Initialization delayed" and a red "failed" instead
>> of a green "OK" in the
>> status column.
>>
>> Once I get to level 5 login, I login and open a
>> terminal. I can bring the
>> network up by issuing "service network restart".
>> What gives? I'd like
>> the interface to receive an IP upon boot.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott Kellogg
>> --
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>>
>>
>
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