Correct me if I'm mistaken but in my case, the pcmcia devices are not yet ready at the time that boot.local fires off. This would certainly not allow the iwconfig to actually talk w/ the wlan0 interface card. On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:17:28 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

Dan Phillips wrote:

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I've got a problem w/ my Linksys pcmcia card not connecting to the router unless I first perform the following after booting up and logging in as joe-user:

I need to log in as root and run: ifdown eth0 (hardware nic, not even connected to anything) ifdown wlan0 iwconfig wlan0 ifup wlan0

Unless I perform these steps as root, I will not be able to obtain an IP from the router. I'm using ndiswrapper on SuSE 9.2. Is there a way of getting the devices loaded such that a regular user can simply boot up, log in and get on the net w/o having to know the root password to run the script shown above? You could try setting the NIC to "manual" instead of "on boot" via Yast. It will then skip the NIC on boot and setup the wireless. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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Unless I did something wrong on my pcmcia setup, I tried this and it ran before the pcmcia services were ready. In fact, the lights on the card were not even lit up at the time that the boot.local fired off my iwconfig script. On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:30:26 -0600, Sunny wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:25:24 -0900, Dan Phillips wrote:

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Correct me if I'm mistaken but in my case, the pcmcia devices are not yet ready at the time that boot.local fires off. This would certainly not allow the iwconfig to actually talk w/ the wlan0 interface card.

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:17:28 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

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Dan Phillips wrote:

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I've got a problem w/ my Linksys pcmcia card not connecting to the router unless I first perform the following after booting up and logging in as joe-user:

I need to log in as root and run: ifdown eth0 (hardware nic, not even connected to anything) ifdown wlan0 iwconfig wlan0 ifup wlan0

Unless I perform these steps as root, I will not be able to obtain an IP from the router. I'm using ndiswrapper on SuSE 9.2. Is there a way of getting the devices loaded such that a regular user can simply boot up, log in and get on the net w/o having to know the root password to run the script shown above? You could try setting the NIC to "manual" instead of "on boot" via Yast. It will then skip the NIC on boot and setup the wireless. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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I may be wrong, but as far as I know, boot.local is the last one to be executed after all other init scripts. Still, if this is not the case, I'd be glad to learn it.

Sunny

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I'll try that, I'll switch the configuration to start on hotplugging now that I've got the internal nic removed (unconfigured). On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:46:24 +0000, John Paul Hayes wrote:

I had the same problem, the card was configured to start at boot time. It recieved the ip from the router but it could not connect to the net. I had to run through very similar serious of commands to get it to connect properly.

The issue was overcome by deactivating the hardwired nic and setting the card up for hotplugging.

I haven't tried setting the card for boot time yet...might try that now actually...

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:39:32 -0900, Dan Phillips wrote:

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Unless I did something wrong on my pcmcia setup, I tried this and it ran before the pcmcia services were ready. In fact, the lights on the card were not even lit up at the time that the boot.local fired off my iwconfig script.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:30:26 -0600, Sunny wrote:

...

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:25:24 -0900, Dan Phillips wrote:

...

Correct me if I'm mistaken but in my case, the pcmcia devices are not yet ready at the time that boot.local fires off. This would certainly not allow the iwconfig to actually talk w/ the wlan0 interface card.

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:17:28 -0600, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:

...

Dan Phillips wrote:

...

I've got a problem w/ my Linksys pcmcia card not connecting to the router unless I first perform the following after booting up and logging in as joe-user:

I need to log in as root and run: ifdown eth0 (hardware nic, not even connected to anything) ifdown wlan0 iwconfig wlan0 ifup wlan0

Unless I perform these steps as root, I will not be able to obtain an IP from the router. I'm using ndiswrapper on SuSE 9.2. Is there a way of getting the devices loaded such that a regular user can simply boot up, log in and get on the net w/o having to know the root password to run the script shown above? You could try setting the NIC to "manual" instead of "on boot" via Yast. It will then skip the NIC on boot and setup the wireless. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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I may be wrong, but as far as I know, boot.local is the last one to be executed after all other init scripts. Still, if this is not the case, I'd be glad to learn it.

Sunny

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