Quote: Originally Posted by Dizzle
Debian able to do wireless without going into a graphical windows server (i believe that's what it's called, X or Xfree86 or something)? Also, can it be made to start right
There is an old saying in in the *nix world, that if it doen't work from the command line it doesn't work.
Obviously I'm not saying that this holds true for X11 interfaces, but it does for all services, that includes wireless. Much of this stems from the fact that the vast majority of *nix boxes will never have a keyboard, let alone a monitor connected to them. Many people have used different flavour of linux including debian for wireless bridging and routing without every using a graphical interface, so yes it will work that way.
You can start whatever you want on boot, it's up to you. You just need to add it to your init/rc scripts.