[ALUG] Laptop wifi help - need to automate dhclient

[Adam Bower]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:25:59PM +0000, Mark Rogers wrote:
> I have a laptop running Kubuntu 6.10, which is recognising its 3Com
> wireless USB dongle (3CRUSB10075) using ndiswrapper. When I run
> "dhclient eth1" it even gets itself an IP address and seems to work fine.
> 
> Where I'm stuck is getting it to run dhclient itself automatically when
> the WLAN dongle is connected.

Try adding the lines

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp 

to /etc/network/interfaces (not tested in the slightest it probably
won't work, I use network manager in gnome to deal with my wireless 
stuff, there should be something similar for kde).

Adam
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