Enable wireless at boot

[danoreilly]

Running on an HP DV9000 notebook with internal 802.11a/b/g wireless (Broadcomm), using WPA. When the system boots, I have to manuall go into KNetworkManager, select the network, and enter the password for the network. How do I make these settings "stick" for booting, so I come up with network connectivity?

[fieldyweb]

I'd be interested in knowing how to do this as well, i thought maybe it was under the Wireless settings in the Control Centre, but that doesn't seem to work.

[VirtualEntity]

I have an HP DV 6213 and an HP DV9000 series. The former has the broadcomm card (I am using it to write this), while the latter is intel-based. The dv6213 runs Sabayon 3.4e (with the working Broadcomm driver), and the latter runs Fedora 7. Both machines are running 64-bit Linux.

Both laptops currently run KDE, and both will automatically initiate a wired connection, but neither will initiate a wireless connection on its own. I think this has more to do with KDE 3.5x than anything Sabayon's or Fedora's producers ever did as I have tried BOTH machines with Gnome (as included with Sabayon 3.3 and Fedora 7) and under Gnome, the wireless connection initiates automatically. It is only under KDE that it does not and must be started manually.

Personally, even though I know this is a bug, I like to think of it as a feature as it allows me to decide if and when to initiate a wireless connection instead of having the machine trying to connect to any wireless network in the neighborhood or wasting time trying to find its 'home' wireless network....

[WarraWarra]

Did you try any of these links yet.
viewtopic.php?f=52&t=8933
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... art1_chap3

Edit: Just moved this to the networking part of the forum.