Automatically Connect to wireless network

I'm having a struggle setting up Wireless and WEP on Linux (Slackware 10.2, Kernel 2.4.31) . Every time I boot up, I have to open Konsole, and do the following:

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 key open <WEP CODE>
dhcpcd wlan0

It was all running fine while I had WEP disabled, but I'd rather have security set up. I have the wireless card drivers installed using ndiswrapper. Can anyone tell me what to do (in NEWBIE language please!), to make it so that I don't have to type anything in Konsole when I boot up to connect to the network Thanks, Thomas

 

Try creating a shell script with thoose commands.... it would let you double click to join the network (bit of a security problem though... having your wep key in plain text, but weps next to useless anyway )

How to write a shell script [LINK]

 

Thanks, If I don't get any easier suggestions I'll give that a try, but it looks pretty complex.

 

Ok tried it and it was a lot easier than I had thought. Does anybody know now how to make it instead of having to open Konsole and typing ./wireless in, I can just press a putton on the KDE Panel?

Thanks, Thomas

 

You can do it by panel button/icon/link very easily.

Right click desktop > create new link to file >

Just name it and right click to get to properties and make it run your command. Sorry if that sounds vague, I don't have it in front of me right now.

You could also make it run automatically:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/ is where you would put startup scripts (not sure if the same in slack). Read this

 

Thanks I've managed to get it on the Panel. I will look into making it start automatically.

Thomas