FOR PCI, PLX, OR USB USERS:
A) You must make sure that the drivers get loaded at boot time and that the
necessary initialization takes place. The simplest way to do this is
to add the following commands to your rc.local file:
modprobe prism2_pci [or prism2_usb/prism2_plx]
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=<your APs SSID> authtype=opensystem
ifconfig wlan0 <yourIP> netmask <yourNetmask> broadcast <yourBroadcast>
route add default gw <yourGateway>
Also, don't forget to set up your resolv.conf to point at your DNS server.
B) Alternatively, you can use the rc.wlan script, which ties into the
/etc/wlan/* configuration files mentioned above.
We currently don't create the softlink from the runlevel directories to
the wlan startup script due to differences in distributions, but the
scripts are redhat-aware, and can be extended to hook into other tools
easily. (patches welcome!) Just make sure it is brought up early in
the process, namely, before the the network interfaces are brought up.
C) Add an alias for wlan0 in /etc/modules.conf. For example, a usb
interface on wlan0 would be set up as:
alias wlan0 prism2_usb
Substitute prism2_plx or prism2_pci as appropriate.
