hi, everyone. just a simple question:

I have made my wireless work by using nidswrapper. Because of a fatal bug,
every time, before I start my wireless , I have to do this chore:

How can I make this change permanent? TIA

You can try the following. (The worst that can happen is it won't work. )

Create the following script in your home directory (directory chosen for ease) with (for example) the name wireless_kludge.

Make sure to change the name of the interface assigned to $WIRELESS to the actual wireless interface. Then install the script to /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ :

You can, of course, name the script anything (preferably descriptive!) that you want so long as that name is not already used in if-pre-up.d. After installing it, you may delete the copy in your home directory if you wish.

Explanation: The scripts in if-pre-up.d are run (as root) before bringing up interfaces. The statement with exit causes this script to do nothing unless the interface about to come up is your wireless interface. Since the script is already running as root you don't need sudo statements. The install statement copies the script to the desired directory, changing the user/group to root/root and setting correct permissions.

It didn't work.

When I login in on tty2, I get the following message:

Does that mean this script didn't run as root?

What is that 'ssb' driver?

You can cheat a little; create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ which has a line like this:
install ssb /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper && /sbin/modprobe ssb

That should force 'ndiswrapper' to load before 'ssb' - assuming that loading ssb isn't done by the initrd's 'init' script.

Tried this.
Operation not permitted, still.

Placing the script script in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d should cause it to run automaticlly as root when you try to bring up the wireless interface. Were you trying to run the script manually? If you want to do that (presumably to test it) you will have to:

Substitute the correct path for <path> (I am not sure where you are running this from) and substitute the correct interface for eth1. (The interface must match what you set in the script or the script will exit w/o doing anything. And you should have set the value in the script to the interface that is used for wireless.)

I am not sure what the underlying problem is that this works around. So, after my first post, it occurred to me that depending on the underlying problem you may need to put the script in /etc/network/if-post-down.d instead of /etc/network/if-pre-up.d. This would cause it to run every time after the wireless is shutdown rather than before the wireless is started.

EDIT: After thinking about this, I may have misinterpreted your post. Were you seeing these error messages as a result of the script running in if-pre-up.d? If so you might need to run the script after you shutdown by moving the script to /etc/network/if-post_down.d. If you still need to run it prior to the first time you bring up the wireless, you can put the commands in /etc/rc.local (or call the script from there, prefacing it -- on the same line -- with the appropriate IFACE= statement).

EDIT2: Yet further reflection makes me realize there might be a problem with the order that scripts are executing. In if-pre-up.d and if-post-down.d the scripts are executed in alphabetical order. If the script is in if-pre-up.d, add the letter "a" to the beginning of the name to force it to run first. If the script is in if-post-up.d, add the letter "z" to the beginning of the name to force it to run last.

Yesterday, I followed this tread: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...eisty_No-Fluff

and I did as what it told me to make this change permanent.

it works now, thanks you for your advice , blackhole54