Loading drivers at Startup In Mandrake 10

metaminds · 11-05-2005, 01:46 AM

I have a Mandrake Community 10.1 , inorder to use Internet, i have to load the modem driver, but i dont know how to load it at startup, right now what i do is just call the modem program in a terminal window and use kppp to start web. once finished i close the terminal, i have a smartlink internal modem please help.. i want to call this program at startup and run it in background
thanx

tredegar · 11-06-2005, 02:43 AM

Put the commands to start up your modem at the end of the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local and they will be run at boot time.

metaminds · 11-07-2005, 10:01 AM

dear tredegar,
i added the following lines at the end of the rd.local file
modprobe slamr
/usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=INDIA /dev/slamr0
and rebooted the computer...
when i tried to connect using kppp it said , modem not found!
when enter the 2 lines in the root terminal console, and use kppp after minimizing the console it works...
please advice...
thanks

tredegar · 11-07-2005, 11:04 AM

Strange. I do not understand why it doesn't work.
Try looking at /var/log/messages to see if there is a helpful error message relating to slamr or slmodemd.