Chris H Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Due to a buggy driver for my rt2500 wifi chipset I have to manually run this below each time I start. $ su # iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M Any idea how to autostart this, seeing as it requires a password input? Ta [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 You could add it to /etc/rc.local and then each time your system starts, it will be set automatically for you. Just add it as you type it except that you don't need to include the su bit, just the iwconfig line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Or, you can add iwconfig to the nopasswd exceptions of your sudoers file ( "visudo" in a root console) , and call it via "sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 54M" from any user startup script, e.g. the gnome startup manager, or .bashrc, or... You must belong to the "wheel" group to be able to use sudo. In some distros (dunno about Mandriva) you can run iwconfig as plain user if you belong to the "network" group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 Thanks for the suggestions, will give it a go tonight. Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 or you can insert that to your /etc/rc.local file... all are being run as root at boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 or you can insert that to your /etc/rc.local file... all are being run as root at boot That's what I said above: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?s=&...st&p=523524 ;) :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 :P yay, sorry for that Ian... :D I cant recall how come I have not read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Is OK, I do it too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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