ckent

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lately my wireless card has not been working when i boot up. i cannot connect to the internet unless i run "sudo modprobe ndiswrapper" and then everything works fine. can someone tell me why it keeps turning off or how to keep it on?

CK

jschiwal

Run "ndiswrapper -m" to modify /etc/modprobe.conf. Did you change a setting for when the device is started? Such as "OnBoot" to "OnConnection"?

You might dig in the system for a config file in /etc/sysconfig/ that lists the modules to include in the initrd file. On my SuSE machine it is in /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Adding "ndiswrapper" to the list and running as root "sudo /sbin/mkinitrd" will create a new initrd file that contains the ndiswrapper module. There may be a preload list in /etc/ as well that will list modules to be loaded after this but before the /etc/init.d/ scripts run. This is another thing to look for.

deadeyes

you can check if the module gets loaded automatically.
Look in /etc/modules and check if ndiswrapper is there.

Also check the log files /var/log/messages and dmesg for any errors.

For example, for my wireless I always have to reload the module before I can load it.

ckent

alright, so adding ndiswrapper to /etc/modules seems to have worked. i wonder why it just stopped though.

thanks a bunch for the help!