I'm trying to get my intel 3945 setup so that it automatically is turned on when I reboot... currently, to get it working, I've got to log in as root, then:

cd root
cd ipw3945-1.0.12/
sudo ./load debug=0
iwconfig eth1 essid MYWIRELESS
ifup eth1

and this will only work when I log in as root... i changed ONBOOT=YES in:

/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth1

and when I reboot, it tries to load eth1 but throws back an error about it not existing.

How can I get this working properly?

Thanks!

Brian

I think you should write a script, chmod a+x it, place it in /etc/rc.d/init.d and link it from /etc/rc.d/rc<runlevel>.d/S<number><name>. Such links are sorted lexically and files pointed by them are executed at boot.

Please indicate which distro you are using. Different distro's name their startup scripts differently.
The problem could also be a missing alias in /etc/modprobe.conf or a missing /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945. ( Two ways of doing the same thing. )

When you created the driver, perhaps the "depmod -a" step was skipped. If a library is involved ( I doubt it ), then "ldconfig" may need to be run. Running these can't hurt.

It may be possible that it is expected that your ipw3945 driver is in the initrd file. Perhaps running "mkinitrd" would help.

After running these commands and rebooting, if you have a "network devices" configuration setup program, such as in Yast, run it and see if the device shows up. If it shows up, you device is being loaded on boot, and you can configure your network settings there. The settings will change the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0. Please note that your system may use a different naming convention instead such as "/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-bus-pci-0000\:02\:01.0" instead. The network devices configuration program may have a "hardware name" entry on one of its pages where that can be changed.

Good Luck.

I'm running Fedora Core 5 and I think you are right about modprobe...

I opened the modprobe.conf file in etc and this is what it has (no eth1):

alias eth0 b44
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel

As you suggested, I ran depmod -a and ldconfig (not sure what these do) but they didn't help even after a reboot.

I did try to put the following in the rc.local file in etc but this didn't work either:

cd /root
cd ipw3945-1.0.12
sudo ./load debug=0
iwconfig eth1 essid FITZ
ifup eth1

Thanks for helping me out... its much appreciated

- Brian

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UPDATE:

Got it working by adding the two lines into the modprobe.conf file ( as specified in the install directions - stupid me)

Thanks again!