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Hi, I have a Netgear WG311T wireless card in a P3-733 system, currently using Puppy 2.02 properly installed on a hard-drive with a gig of swap space.
I followed the ndiswrapper procedure and loaded the W-XP inf file from the cards driver CD.
I was able to get the card operating properly.
My problem is that the driver is retained but when the system reboots I have to re-run ndiswrapper, then iwconfig, then use the ethernet/network setup > wlan0 > autodhcp to reload the driver for operation.
WAG does not appear to do anything.
How do I config it to automatically load at each reboot?
It certainly works well once it is up!

Thanks for any suggestions.
wombat.

You can add the commands to set up your wireless adapter to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. They will be excuted late in the boot sequence. Example The commands could also put into a simple shell script to run when you choose.

Thankyou so much for your reply BlackAdder, I added those items to that file but still no joy.
I removed all the items apart from
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0
and that allows me then to use the ethernet / networking setup wizard to simply use the "wlan0 button" and then "auto DHCP" and everything is operating properly.
Is there a simple way of adding the "auto DHCP" in a line, I feel that would fix it.
Again Thanks.
wombat.

wombat,
The line dhcpcd -t 5 -d wlan0 should be equivalent to clicking the auto dhcp button. Does that sequence of commands work okay if used from a console window? If so, maybe the command to remove the old process id files should be: That simply makes the removal of any of those pesky little files conditional on there being any.

G'Day BlackAdder, well you certainly know your suff there, I applied the commands after a lot of typo errors and the wireless now works perfectly.
The eventual code now reads as ...
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0
dhcpcd -t 5 -d wlan0
if [ -e /etc/dhcpc/*.pid ]; then
rm /etc/dhcpc/*.pid
fi

This really does the trick!!!
Thank you so much for your help. Blinky works overtime!
Wombat.

HiWombat and BlackAdder

I (very newbie) have had the same problem until I found your topic on the forum.

Went through the same steps as Wombat but found his final text did not quite work on my machine.

I reversed the last two commands so that the entire text in /etc/rc.d/rc.local reads as follows:-

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0
if [ -e /etc/dhcpc/*.pid ]; then
rm /etc/dhcpc/*.pid
fi
dhcpcd -t 5 -d wlan0


and that works perfectly for me!

Thanks guys

it's not important, but this line will work:

rm -f /etc/dhcpc/*.pid

(instead of
f [ -e /etc/dhcpc/*.pid ]; then
rm /etc/dhcpc/*.pid
fi )

the -f option suppresses an error message if there are no .pid files ... and it over rides -i if someone aliased rm to rm -i

so all you would need to start your connection would be:

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0
rm -f /etc/dhcpc/*.pid
dhcpcd -t 5 -d wlan0

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-wlan0.pid 2>/dev/null #if left over from last session, causes trouble.
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-wlan0.cache 2>/dev/null #ditto
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-wlan0.info 2>/dev/null #ditto
dhcpcd -t 5 -d wlan0

I copied the rm statements from /etc/wlan0mode

I don't profess to know why it now works. But I can say it did not work untill I rm'ed the .cache and the .info files also. Hope this helps someone else

Best Regards

Dave

Hi, I did modprobe ath_pci and ifconfig ath0 up in the above file and that
got the network card running but I dont use dhcp but use a static ip. Is there any way to configure that at startup. I have to go into network set up and chooose wireless and set all up manually and then it works. any help will be appreciated. thanks

Hi

modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 essid mynet channel 6 key mykey
rm /etc/dhcpc/*.pid # remove any leftover process id files
dhcpcd -t 10 -d wlan0

in rc.local works fine for me , I used to have to load profile in WAG to pick up the key

cheers