Lord Kenneth Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 Hm... wlan0 is being a pain in the butt and I haven't gotten any help yet. Basically, it gets detected on startup but doesn't work until I go into console and type in "ifcfg wlan0 up". How can I set it so it does it automatically on startup, or better yet, fix it the "normal" way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 And yes, I'm rather desperate on this issue. I've asked on networking but I haven't gotten any responses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 put ifcfg wlan0 up at the very bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local and reboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 That works! But... let's say I unplug the wireless card and then plug it back in... it needs those commands to run again. Any way to do that??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 you mean w/o rebooting? Not sure...I don't have it. I'd guess ifcfg wlan0 down ifcfg wlan0 up should do all you need, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kenneth Posted January 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 For some reason, it doesn't work. I've heard hotplug is screwed up, it wouldn't suprise me-- this is a USB device. Hell, it doesn't seem to use my external HDD right, either-- it's slow and is choosy about whether it wants to detect it on bootup or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 27, 2004 Report Share Posted January 27, 2004 hotplug can be picky.... Or Ive found when it works it works well but when it misbehaves its a real pain. Perhaps you have a problem between usb1 and usb2 ?? and the device is falling back to USB1 ?? Detect on bootup could be timing ??? Perhaps it needs a warm-up time before booting in order to initialise properly. Linux handles USB drives or other mass storage as scsi emulated drives. While this works the problem is the ATAPI drives don't support a full SCSI command set (like the reinitialising) ... On the wlan device .... I presume you have a wlan and a wired device and you want to be able to swap between the two?? i.e. It uses the wired network when its in or the wlan??? The Mandrake network/internet wizard in 9.1 (haven't tried 9.2) uses a screwy way of configuring the network. If you have a single card it usually works well but in a screwy way, that is it creates a virtual interface (usually eth0:9) under eth0 When you have more than one NIC it tends to get a bit confused..... Personally, unless you specifically want a virtual interface I prefer to keep real (this is useful for instance if you have only one card but you want to do NAT - and is used under the connection sharing) However, when you have two cards it complicates matters? What exactly happens with the ifconfig wlan0 down from bvc and the corresponding up???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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