Hi, I don't have much knowledge about wireless connection, but I would like to give my two cents.
On 12/17/05, martin jakubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your /etc/network/interfaces should look something like: > > > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > > wireless-key XXXXXXXXXX > > wireless-essid my-network > > Thanks a lot. I just got a chance to test this. > Unfortunately, it doesn't "work". In other words: > 1) I put the above in my /etc/network/interfaces > 2) I commented out any lines with eth0 for good measure > 3) but when I boot up and ping, I get: > ping -c 5 www.google.com > ping: unknown host www.google.com > You have to do one more thing to *auto*matically start an interface during boot time. You'll need to have a line like this: auto wlan0 Refer to interfaces(5). > Maybe this is the problem. How do I make sure ndiswrapper is loaded > before networking? ... I'm clueless about how to control start-up > scripts. > You need to make an entry of 'ndiswrapper' into /etc/modules so that the modules get loaded before the networking script is called. Hope this helps. Srinidhi.