Gray Hat Hacking, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

Creating a Directory-Based or File-Based Module with dir2lzm

The wireless drivers on this laptop simply needed to be loaded, configured with iwconfig, and then DHCP enabled. This type of configuration on a standard Linux distribution could be done with a/etc/rc.d initialization script. The set of commands needed to load the drivers and join the test network was as follows:

bt ~ # cd /usr/src/drivers/ipw3945-1.2.0
bt ipw3945-1.2.0 # ./load
bt ipw3945-1.2.0 # cd –
bt ~ # iwconfig eth1 essid ap
bt ~ # iwconfig eth1 enc XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
bt ~ # ifconfig eth1 up
bt ~ # dhcpcd –t 10 eth1

With a little poking around in the/etc/rc.d directory, you’ll find that rc.inet1 already includes the dhcpcd step and has a convenient spot after setting ...