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Old 10-Feb-2007, 09:43
John Doe
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Hi.
I used this method for my rt61 based wifi card in SuSE 10.2 with serialmonkey's driver. On every bootup I have to setup encryption manualy. I created /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ra0 as:

Code:
DEVICE='ra0'
ONBOOT='yes' 
BOOTPROTO='static' 
STARTMODE='auto' 
PRE_UP_SCRIPT='ifup-ra0'
IPADDR='172.22.1.13'
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
and /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-ra0 as:

Code:
#! /bin/bash
ifconfig ra0 inet up
iwpriv ra0 set NetworkType=infra
iwpriv ra0 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
iwpriv ra0 set EncrypType=TKIP
iwpriv ra0 set DefaultKeyID=1
iwpriv ra0 set SSID=<my-ssid>
iwpriv ra0 set WPAPSK=<my-key>
but still ra0 isn't connected on startup and I have to run /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/ifup-ra0 manualy (then everything runs fine). Boot.msg says:

Code:
ra0****** device: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
ra0****** warning: using NO encryption
ra0****** IP address: 172.22.1.13/24** done
Setting up service network**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.**.done
There's also relevant settings in /etc/Wireless/RT61STA/rt61sta.dat so I commented identical out. Did I missed somethig?