Problem with wireless networking starting at bootup.

Zombie13 · 08-23-2005, 03:11 AM

I've successfully configured by Belkin F5D7000 PCI Wireless NIC under Mandriva Limited Edition 2005, using ndiswrapper. However, I'm having problems getting the module to start at bootup.

I've done "ndiswrapper -m", after which my /etc/modules.conf file look like this...

Quote:

# This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci
remove snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-cmipci
install snd-cmipci /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-cmipci && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ohci-hcd; /bin/true
alias eth1 eth1394
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

My /etc/modules file also looks like this...

Quote:

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
ndiswrapper

After logging into KDE, I have to do "modprobe ndiswrapper" before the wireless network will start.

Any ideas?

PenguinPwrdBox · 08-23-2005, 07:59 PM

Check /var/log/dmesg for the reason why it didn't start.
It may need the extension too - .o, or .ko?

Zombie13 · 08-24-2005, 01:26 PM

Thanks for the reply. I tried the "ndiswrapper -m" one more time, and it appears to be working now. Very strange. The only thing I can think of is that the wireless connection is one of the last things that loads, and I wasn't giving it enough time to load. More likely user error, though... hehe...