Wireless setups

[Lowell Gilbert]

Luke Kearney <lukek at meibin.net> writes:

> Hi There,
> I have recently installed 4.8R on my IBM Thinkpad notebook which
> fortunately includes a wireless NIC. The nic is recognised as wi0 for
> which I am grateful as Linux did not recognise the card first time
> around. Now I often move between networks and having to set the wepkey
> and ssid etc etc by hand will become very tiresome very quickly. I was
> wondering if any one can point me in the direction of a better way to
> set these. I am guessing that this will still have to be done after the
> boot but what do people use ?
> 
> I was able to get the interface up and ping other hosts so no problems
> there but can this NIC be set for dhcp rather than having to go through
> the grief of setting everything manually ?

Doesn't WEP have to be configured *before* you can communicate with
the DHCP server in the first place?