[ALUG] Laptop wifi help - need to automate dhclient

[Mark Brier]

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.
> 
> The laptop is for a customer who is collecting it this afternoon, so I'm
> hoping for some quick suggestions if anyone has any.
> 
> [Apologies to any PLUG subscribers who are here also for the
> duplication, I'm hoping for a wider audience given the limited timescale
> I have to get this working.]
> 

My suggestion would be to use NetworkManager if it is for a customer and
they are going to be using gnome/kde. It makes connection to
accesspoints a breeze and supports both WEP and WPA (if wpa_supplicant
is also installed).

HTH,

Mark

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