HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

[JD]

  On 08/13/2010 03:24 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 14:42 -0700, JD wrote:
>>> On 08/13/2010 12:58 PM, binarynut at comcast.net wrote:
>>>>     Fc12, X86_64
>>>>
>>>> While in Single User mode, how do I start wlan0 to connect to a WEP
>>>> 192.168.1.1 Router .
>>>>
>>>> Eth0 is not available in this application.
>>> service wpa_supplicant start
>>> wait a few minutes for the wpa supplicant to sync up with router
>>> then
>>> service network start
>> Wonderful. Now one responder told him to use NetworkManager and you've
>> just told him to use something incompatible with NM. Unless there's
>> clear evidence that NM is causing him problems, this is only going to
>> lead to headaches down the road.
> I missed the "use NM" email. Does NM work in single-user mode?!
>
> wpa_supplicant isn't needed to wep anyway.
Back that up with a how to then!!
Usually it is wpa_supplicant which will drive the usual wext driver
to communicate with the underlying wifi chipset driver.
Unless the OP has specified a different driver in
/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant.