Subject: Re: iwi WiFi interface firmware load on boot
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 12/04/2005 23:01:31
In message <Pine.NEB.4.63.0512051238200.5296@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt Sampson w
rites:
>On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Presumably you use the "media" statement in your dhclient.conf for this?

Yes.
>
>I don't see how one could run an external program from dhclient.conf; I
>think you'd need to modify the dhclient-script itself.
>
I was wondering if there was some variant I didn't know of -- say,

	media "!...."

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