wireless configuration

[johnmalloy-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org]

Ubuntu 10.04 

I have inherited someone else's config. 



John Malloy 

johnmalloy AT comcast DOT net 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Metro" <tmetro-blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org> 
To: johnmalloy-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org 
Cc: "L-blu" <discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:54:37 PM 
Subject: Re: wireless configuration 

johnmalloy-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org wrote: 
> What is the best way to make sure the wireless configuration runs in 
> the correct sequence? 
> 
> We need to run the WPA supplicant runs first (and completes 
> successfully) BEFORE we run the dhclient command to get an IP 
> address. 

What distribution are you running? I would expect any properly installed 
dhclient to be ran from scripts triggered when the interface is brought 
up, so I'm wondering why things sound like they're broken in your setup. 

-Tom 

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