Figured out the wireless setup... I'll post the answer here for others' reference...
I read the docs in /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools and found that you could specify wireless options in /etc/network/interfaces
For example, my entry for eth0 (the wireless card) is something like:
Code:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
wireless_essid <network name>
wireless_mode Ad-Hoc
wireless_channel 6
wireless_key <raw-hex-key>
These settings are consulted by the network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools script whenever the interface is brought up, and the relevant iwconfig command is invoked.
As for the GRUB issue, I've decided to simplify... maaan! and see how lilo manages things first. My config is:
/dev/hda1 (Win2k Boot NTFS)
/dev/hda5 (Win2k NTFS)
/dev/hdb1 (Linux ReiserFS)
/dev/hdb2 (Linux Swap)
lilo now lives in the boot sector of hdb1, and I can get to it by making my BIOS boot from IDE-1 instead of IDE-0. I'm going to continue experimenting. If I get really stuck, expect another thread