static wireless network

[John Hubbard]

Mark Haney wrote:
> John Hubbard wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to set up a machine with a static ip address.   I have other 
>> examples of how to set up static ip addresses and know what needs to go 
>> into the /etc/network/interfaces file.  The part that I am fuzzy on is 
>> how to bring up the connection up at boot.  The wireless network is 
>> secure.  I know how to configure the connection with the 'iwconfig' 
>> command but I am not sure where to put a script that sets it up.  So the 
>> question is where do I put the command to configure the wireless, and do 
>> I just set up /etc/network/interfaces like I would for a static wired ip 
>> address? 
>> Just in case it matters that wireless adapter is a RTL-8185.  It was 
>> properly detected by a fresh install of mythbuntu 8.10 beta. 
>>
>>     
>
> Edit the wireless interface (mine is wlan0, but yours might be 
> different) and add (or edit) ONBOOT=YES.  
In /etc/network/interfaces? I have found a lot of references to ifcfg-* 
but I can't find those files anywhere. Do Debian based system use them?
> That /should/ bring up the 
> interface on boot.
>   
But where do I add the line about what the wireless key is? Or is that 
automagically saved for me?

-- 
-john

To be or not to be, that is the question
                2b || !2b
(0b10)*(0b1100010) || !(0b10)*(0b1100010)
        0b11000100 || !0b11000100
        0b11000100 || 0b00111011
               0b11111111
        255, that is the answer.