Wireless NIC must be reconfigured after every reboot

**broggyr** · 06-22-2005

Installed LE2005 today on a Gateway 333MHz laptop. Wireless card is a NetworkEverywhere NWP11B (ACX100) on a ndiswrapper Windows driver. Posting this on it. When I reboot, I have to reconfigure the card - the driver is still installed but I don't know how to simply start it up without reconfiguring it. Even have "Start at boot" set, but that doesn't make a difference...

Let me know what info you need...
Thanks

**stokes** · 06-23-2005

I had this problem and fixed it by adding these lines to the end of my /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Code:

#take wired connection down &#40;optional&#41;
ifconfig eth0 down

#set connection to managed mode &#40;for wireless connections&#41;
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed

#specify essid for wlan
iwconfig wlan0 essid cupotea

#set IP address
ifconfig wlan0 192.168.2.8

#add default gateway for Internet access
route add default gw 192.168.2.1

#add wep encryption
iwconfig wlan0 key &#91;your encryption key&#93;

Of course if you want to use DHCP to get an IP address you can use "dhclient wlan0" instead of setting the IP manually.

There may be a better way of doing this but it works for me!

Hope this helps!

**broggyr** · 06-23-2005

Sweet! I think this may be just what I am looking for! I'll try it tonight when I get home! Thanks, I'll let you know how I made out.

**broggyr** · 06-24-2005

Here is my file, but the problem exists...

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.



touch /var/lock/subsys/local
#take wired connection down &#40;optional&#41;
ifconfig eth0 down

#set connection to managed mode &#40;for wireless connections&#41;
iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed

#specify essid for wlan
iwconfig wlan0 essid broggnet

#set IP address
dhclient wlan0

#add default gateway for Internet access
route add default gw 9.24.19.72

#add wep encryption
iwconfig wlan0 key &#91;encryption key&#93;

**darkprince** · 06-24-2005

does /var/log/messages shed any light?

**stokes** · 06-24-2005

The problem is here:

Code:

#add wep encryption 
iwconfig wlan0 key &#91;encryption key&#93;

If you are using wep encryption on your wlan you need to enter your key instead of [encryption key]. If you are not using wep you can just comment the line out using # at the beginning.

**broggyr** · 06-24-2005

I actually have my encryption key in there instead of [encryption key] but i wasn't going to post it...

**broggyr** · 06-24-2005

Originally Posted by darkprince

does /var/log/messages shed any light?

I'm still reading, it's quite lengthy - I've rebooted and will check again - maybe it won't be as long lol

**stokes** · 06-24-2005

hehehe .. ok sorry!

Not sure in that case .. the only thing different in your script is the dhclient line. If you run 'dhclient wlan0' from the konsole and then type 'iwconfig', can you see if it's worked?

**broggyr** · 06-24-2005

I did

Code:

# dhclient wlan0

sit0&#58; unknown hardware address type 776
wlan0&#58; unknown interface&#58; no such device

# ndiswrapper -l
nwp11nds        driver present, hardware present

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