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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / January 2005how to automaticly connect an ibooks wlan?
Hi, I do have an ibook with airport extreme integrated, the wizard from the beginning failed because I had to select WEP 40bit ASCII for authentication. I'd configured the WLAN connection manualy and saved the passwort. Unfortunately I did not get an connection while booting the ibook. I always have to go to preferences, network, select the airport, connect and select my WLAN. To make a long story short - how could I do this automaticly with hacking it into /etc/networks (or something). best regards - Dirk. P.S. The ibook is cool ! :) [...] > To make a long story short - how could I do this automaticly with hacking it > into /etc/networks (or something). > > best regards - Dirk. > > P.S. The ibook is cool ! :) What you want to do is create a Location - which is a package of settings - that contains your WLAN settings. You do that in System Preferences/Network, at the top (on Panther, anyway) there is a drop box with "Location". If your desired settings are not part of any Location, create a new one (Edit/Duplicate), select the new Location, name it, and in the lower drop box Show, pick Network Status. This should show the AirPort (or whatever you get for the wireless interface), click on the interface name, click Configure, configure away and "Apply Now". This should create a new Location which is sticky from boot event to boot event. Since you can make a number of Locations, each with its own settings, once you have a connection to a WLAN somewhere, you can save the settings in a new Location and just pick the one corresponding to where you are. You select which Location is active from the menu that drops down from the blue apple logo in the upper left corner of the screen. HTH Greg TLD net, domain sonic, user gw+2 There is an illegal character in the user name. |
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