Configuring the startup process

thephotoman · 09-29-2004, 07:45 AM

I've got a small problem. I want my wireless card to come up at startup, and I want it to use DHCP to get an IP address at startup, instead of having to do that once I'm logged in. How do I go about doing this?

Dead Parrot · 09-29-2004, 12:38 PM

You can get your card up at startup by making your /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:

Code:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

And maybe you'll also need to make /etc/resolv.conf to look like this:

Code:

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

But in this thread http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=234997 comp12345 suggests that you'll also need to have "wireless-tools" package installed before you can actually get your wireless connection working. Once you are connected, you can do "apt-cache search wireless" to see what other utilities there are for wireless cards.

thephotoman · 09-29-2004, 12:47 PM

Many thanks! I found the problem: it wasn't checking for DHCP because the config had been set to static. When I set it up, I was nowhere near a wireless network.

The problem wasn't that the wireless card wasn't working, it was just that I was manually having to request DHCP information. As I'm using the same protocols when I'm logged in, it worked perfectly.

Now, could you tell me how to load an xmodmap file automatically?

Dead Parrot · 09-29-2004, 01:27 PM

Here's one thread that discusses xmodmap:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=222543

If editing ~/.bash_profile doesn't work, you can try adding the xmodmap lines to your xinit file (~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession).

sfzombie13 · 10-01-2004, 09:48 PM

are you running a sony vaio? how old is it?

thephotoman · 10-01-2004, 10:20 PM

It's about 3 and a half years old. Sometimes things get sluggish, but it usually works well.