In message <Pine.NEB.4.63.0512051124040.19726@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt Sampson 
writes:

>
>Ok, I see. So the basic value of an rc.d script would just be that it
>would make setup a little more obvious to newbies. Is this worthwhile,
>do you think? Or would it be better just to drop the idea and let users
>who don't know how to do this learn about ifconfig.iwi0 some other way?
>

Is there any way to do such initialization in a dhclient.conf file?  
That's how I set nwid and nwkey for my wireless cards.  It also has the 
advantage of loading firmware even for PCMCIA cards that might need 
such treatment.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb