[ARMedslack] Bringing mlan0 up at boot

Stuart Winter m-lists at biscuit.org.uk
Fri Nov 30 17:18:32 UTC 2012


> > Exactly - if your WLAN is secured (most likely) then you'd need another
> > service to help bring up the interface, so it doesn't seem that there's
> > any value in adding this at boot.
> >
>
> But would it bring mlan0 up anyway, instead of typing:
> ifconfig mlan0 up

I don't think it'll make any difference since nothing in the Slackware rc
scripts uses this - it's only the installer, as far as I can see.
alienBOB added it some time ago to help speed up his own installations,
IIRC.


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