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[basskozz]

I successfully installed ubuntu thanks to the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=Ubuntu_On_OLPC_XO
Using an SD card and this great custom bootloader script but I can't seem to figure out how to connect to my wireless router (that uses WEP not WPA), the wiki only discusses WPA connections and not WEP...
Any/All help is much appreciated,
-BassKozz

[basskozz]

Thanks to cjb & Ian_Daniher over at #olpc-help I figued out what I need to do to logon to WEP:

Code:

iwconfig eth1 essid "mySSID" key mywepkey
sudo dhclient eth1

Where mySSID = My wireless routers SSID
and mywepkey = my wep key

But now I am trying to figure out how to put this in a startup script so it runs every time I boot (because as of right now I have to manually add the above each time I restart to connect to my router  )
Can someone let me know what I need to do to get this to connect each time I reboot?

[basskozz]

Nevermind, figured it out, thanks to ubuntu forums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=854332
I had to add the following to /etc/network/interfaces

Code:

# Wireless Connection
iface eth1 inet dhcp
wireless-key hex-key
wireless-essid ssid

auto eth1

where hex-key = my WEP hex key & ssid = my routers wireless SSID

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