Ubuntu Wireless On Boot Connect

[aeuzent]

Alright I've been trying to get my wireless network to connect on boot. After much fiddling with the interfaces file I've given up and chosen instead to create a little shell script that just runs the basic iwconfig commands. But now I have some free time and I'm trying to figure out exactally what part of the interfaces file is wrong

Here's the file

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
        script grep
        map eth1
#       map eth0

# The primary network interface
iface eth1 inet dhcp
        # wireless-* options are implemented by the wireless-tools package
        wireless-mode managed
        wireless-essid ""
        wireless-key #########

# iface eth0 inet dhcp



iface eth0 inet dhcp



auto eth1

[bidi]

You'll need you ESSID to get it working properly. My /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The primary network interface

auto atml0
iface atml0 inet dhcp
  wireless-essid Wireless Connection
  wireless-channel 1
  wireless-mode adhoc
  wireless-nick DebLinux
  wireless-rts 2304
  wireless-frag 2304

You absolutely need your ESSID in there with no " (even if it has spaces like mine); the channel number (mine is 1 as you can see); and the mode, adhoc if you want to be able to get out of you LAN. Mine has a few extra things in there just because I found it works best that way.

[aeuzent]

Alright I pretty much cut and pasted what you posted and still no luck.

I made a few changes

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# iface eth0 inet dhcp

# The primary network interface

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
  wireless-essid Wireless Connection
  wireless-channel 6
  wireless-mode adhoc
  wireless-nick Ubuntu
  wireless-rts 2304
  wireless-frag 2304
  wireless-key ##########

I assume that the channel is the wireless channel, which is in my case 6.

I don't understand exactally what rts and frag are for though

[aeuzent]

Scratch that, I had the wrong ESSID. Probem solved.


I'm still curious about those two settings though

[bidi]

To tell you the truth I'm not sure what they mean either, but you might want to take them off yours. It's something that is defined in the router and when I installed all it in Windows (I called Customer Support and they told me to define it that way) it would only work with that threshold. The full name in the router configuration is RTS threshold and Fragmentation threshold.