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gnephiak

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Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 7

Wireless Problem.

I am using gnome-network-manager, everything works fine if I turn the wireless card on before boot.
But if I turn the card on after boot up, the gnome-network-manager does not start my card automatically, so I have to "ifconfig wlan0 up" to turn the card on.
Is there any way to make it automatically start?

Robstar

Member

Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 33

Re: Wireless Problem.

You could bring the card up during initialisation. I use wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd, but if I know how you do things, I could probably build a nice little script for you. Here is a bit of basics:

In /etc/rc.d/ build a new script:

#!/bin/bash

# general condif
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions

case "$1" in

there are three cases:

    start) 
    stop) 
    restart)
    *)

start: you put the commands to start the daemon, so in my case

start) 
        stat_busy "Starting Wireless"
        wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa1.conf -B &> /dev/null
        add_daemon wireless
        stat_done
        ;;

stat_busy and stat_done, produce the [BUSY] [DONE] at the end.

stop: usually a kill command can be enough here,

    stop)     
        stat_busy "Stopping Wireless"
        killall wpa_supplicant
        rm_daemon wireless
        stat_done
        ;;

restart is a bit of a no brainer:

    restart) 
        $0 stop
        sleep 1
        $0 start
        ;;

and finally *:

    *)
        echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
        ;;

Just finish off with:

esac
exit 0

and your done.

Note: make sure there is a ;; for the end of that case. If you don't it will go into the next case.

You can look into other files in rc.d if you want to make them more complex .

Once you've saved it, chmod a+x the file and be sure to be root. Go into rc.conf, go all the way to the bottom and add it to the daemons list.

I know this is a bit much, but its an idea.

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gnephiak

Member

Registered: 2008-07-09

Posts: 7

Re: Wireless Problem.

Looks like the network manager will ask root password after gdm login, but mine doesn't.

PS. I didn't unlock the keyrings.

Thanks.