Re: Setting up dhclient

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Mar 28, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> 
>>> The only last thing that would be really really nice is to have it 
>>> automatically run ifconfig for the interface to set up the wireless SSID 
>>> and WEP key.  I can plug in the interface, but dhcpcd just waits for 
>>> carrier until I configure the interface manually.
>> 
>> Do you run wpa_supplicant?  I find that that (usually) DTRT.
> 
> No, I just have simple WEP to keep the neighbors from sucking up my 
> bandwidth!  So I just have the ssid and nwkey in my /etc/ifconfig.xxx
> 
wpa_supplicant can handle plain WEP; you may want to give it a try.

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