Mandrake 9.1 and Wireless Networking
From: Jason Kumpf (jknaty_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/28/03
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Date: 28 Aug 2003 09:20:45 -0700
Recently I finally got a wireless card for my laptop (Dell Inspiron
8200). I got the card through work so it they got it from Dell
(TrueMobile 1150 Series Wireless Mini PCI Card). As soon as I booted
up, without changing anything, mandrake had recognized it, installed
what it needed and then connected automatically to the nearest
wireless access point. YIKES!! That access point is not even in our
office, it might be some local college hacker!
So next I figures I would go to my
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file and change onboot=no.
Well this didn't seem to work as when I boot up we still automatically
connect to the nearest wireless access point.
Now I guess I have a few questions but the only one I really care to
have answered is:
1. How do I stop my wireless card from automatically connecting to any
access point?
2. Is there a way to setup or a startup script that will only try to
startup my wireless card if no hard wire connection (eth0) is found?
3. Is there a way to profile my network settings so that I can say hey
only start eth0 if it's present else look for these two access points
(work or home) and then try to connect with these WEP keys?
I am sure there are answers and solutions to these questions I have
asked but I have just been having a tough time finding them. Maybe I
am just bad at searching google groups but I really don't know why
this scenario is so difficult to achieve on Linux and so easy to do on
Windows XP. I hate to admit that though it seems to be true at least
for me.
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