Wireless network (and a shell script for you guys, also)

Question

I don't know the right way to bring up my wireless iface at bootup, so I wrote a small shell script to do it for me.
Feel free to use it if you find it useful..
I'd also appreciate someone telling me what *IS* the arch way of doing what my shell script's doing
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Val Polyakov <[email protected]>
# 7/8/07
# Change these to reflect your network
PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin
IFACE=ifaceNameOfYourWirelessCard
DRIVER=moduleNameForYourWirelessCard
SID=yourSID
ENCKEY=yourEncryptionKey
# Don't change anything beyond this point.
case "$1" in
    start)
        echo "Loading the wireless card driver"
        modprobe $DRIVER
    echo "Setting up the SID and encryption key"
        iwconfig $IFACE essid $SID enc $ENCKEY
    echo "Bringing up the wireless interface"
    ifconfig $IFACE up
    if [ -f /var/run/dhcpcd-$IFACE.pid ]
    then
        rm /var/run/dhcpcd-$IFACE.pid
    fi
    echo "Running the dhcp client"
    dhcpcd $IFACE
    stop)
        echo "Bringing down the wireless interface"
    ifconfig $IFACE down
    echo "Unloading the driver"
    rmmod $DRIVER   
    restart)
        $0 stop
    sleep 2
        $0 start
        echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0

Answer 1

brain0 wrote:If your wireless drivers support wpa_supplicant, you could try autowifi from http://www.archlinux.org/~thomas/autowifi-svn/ It handles multiple wireless networks very well. There is no documentation right now, just read here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev … 00867.html
what would the benefit of that be, as compared to my script ?
the shell script i made (and pasted) works just fine, sits in /etc/rc.d and is called by /etc/rc.conf
i was just curious whats the official, i guess, way to do it with arch
since network profiles dont work for some reason, i figured i must be missing something..