WIreless connectivity at boot

From: Curtis Vaughan (curtis_at_npc-usa.com)
Date: 11/06/05

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    There has been this problem with my wireless connectivity that is
    getting on my nerves. Every time I reboot I have to go through a series
    of procedures just to get my wireless card to connect to my wireless
    router. Unfortunately, I have never been able to pin down what exact
    procedure I need to follow. But here are a few things I can say for sure.

    At boot up there is 0 connectivity with my wireless router. However,
    eth1 (the wireless card) is active (enabled). I have to manually issue
    the command:

    iwconfig eth1 key restricted **************

    And then I seem to have connectivity to the router. I judge that I have
    connectivity by the fact that the network icon turns from 1 red diamond
    to several blue ones. However, I never get an ip address from the
    router. Then I just go through a series of ifconfigs and ifups and
    ifdowns, etc., sometimes even /etc/init.d/network restart before finally
    I get an ip address. Kind of a hassle. How can I make this more automatic?

    Here is my interfaces file:

    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    auto eth0
    iface eth0 inet dhcp

    auto eth1
    iface eth1 inet dhcp
    name Wireless LAN card
    wireless-essid CCCP
    wireless-key ************************* 

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