On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 02:24, ratcheson@earthlink.net wrote:
Here's what I had to do to make sure my Dell laptop wifi card is initialized on boot.
1. In /etc/sysconfig/kernel, set MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="driverloader"
Yours may be "ndiswrapper" depending on which wrapper you may be using, if any, then,
2. /etc/init.d/boot.local, add ifup wlan0.
That does work. However, it's definitely a kludge. My out-of-the-box SuSE 9.1 Professional desktop host brings up the network by default without these modifications (loading the appropriate network driver module). I'd like to find the root of the problem, so I don't encounter side effects from this kludge. Since I'm running a kernel.org kernel, I'm wondering if there's a SuSE-specific patch for improved network hotplug support I'm lacking. (I've combed through the patches included with kernel-source-2.6.4 but didn't find anything applicable.) The only SuSE-supplied patch I'm using is the tiocgdev patch. - Chris