HowTo , Connecting wlan0 when in Single user mode

[binarynut at comcast.net]

  On 08/13/2010 08:13 PM, binarynut at comcast.net wrote:
>  On 08/13/2010 08:00 PM, binarynut at comcast.net wrote:
>>    On 08/13/2010 06:43 PM, Mikkel wrote:
>>> On 08/13/2010 05:40 PM, Martin Airs wrote:
>>>> sorry, one assumes that the OP is actually capable of going into a
>>>> desktop just to tick the box, just to make the wireless network
>>>> available in runlevel 3.
>>>>
>>> But the OP wants it in runlevel 1.
>>>
>> ifconfig wlan0 is showing the wlan0,but dhclient wlan0 is not giving me
>> a IP .
>>
>> iwconfig wlan0 essid dd-wrt key 8956231064   works , but it didn't like
>> 's' so I let it out .  The key is a Hex key.
>>
>> iwlist wlan0 key,      shows a key
> Now it is Connected, but it sure took a long to connect.
>
> I was watching the DHCP connection in Router and after about 10 
> minutes it connected.
>
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ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 dd-wrt key 9856231080 (hex Key)
dhclient wlan0

Did the job