Okay. So I have the MN-720 and I finally got it working in Linux. (I had to install SuSE over Fedora but who cares!) It runs all by itself, and I have it set to turn on at boot. However, I noticed that it did NOT start up on boot, and I had to 'modprobe ndiswrapper' it again to get it to work. (Yet all of my settings were saved...) Is there a way to automate this for me on boot? I want to make a simple shell script that runs at startup and automates this command for me. I have absolutely NO experience with shell scripting whatsoever. :-D If anyone could help, it would be great.

Thanks!
chiefreborn

ndiswrapper -m

This command is supposed to insert a line in /etc/modprobe.conf to load ndiswrapper during boot. If that's not working you can add 'modprobe ndiswrapper' to your rc.local file.

Where is the rc.local file? I know there's an rc.splash file (for the main splash loading screen) in /etc but I couldn't find rc.local.

Add the line: in your /etc/modprobe.conf as dracolich said.

No no no no no I already have that. I did the ndiswrapper -m a while ago which wrote the alias to a file. I need to put the command 'modprobe ndiswrapper' in some kind of file that runs on boot.

I just did a real quick google search for the rc.local. This is what I found

http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svl...er/038401.html

According to this in suse, the equivalent is called boot.local in the init.d directory

Hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll jump right on that! I'll let you know if it works.

Feel free to adjust this to suit your needs, then put it in /etc/rc.d, make it executable and run it from within /etc/rc.d/network by adding this line to it : cgs-zd1211_control start

Good Luck

-
#! /bin/bash

# wireless activate wireless lan
#
# chkconfig: - 07 93
# description: starts the wireless lan
#
# created 04 June 03
# by George Nimmer george164@earthlink.net

# *******************************************************************************************
# *---> PATCHED ON 15 juli 2005 by ph0b0s (d4rkritu4l@gmail.com) for the Zydas ZD1211 device*
# *---> Checking if device exists has been removed bacause it gave too many errors... *
# *---> Please send comments/suggestions to d4rkritu4l@gmail.com *
# *---> Tested on SUSE 9.3 professional with a zd1211-based Canyon usb stick. *
# *---> For SUSE, you need to configure the wlan device in YAST, but change startup type *
# *---> to MANUAL, and start it with this script instead... *
# *---> - CoDeGuRuS 2005 - *
# *******************************************************************************************

# change this gateway as needed:
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1

# dummy ip ---> needs to be one not used in your network, will be used to temporarily
# give the wlan device an ip adress to prevent routing errors
DUMMY_IP=192.168.2.99

function start() {
#
# Start Wireless Networking
#
echo "+++ Starting WLAN interface..."
/sbin/modprobe -a zd1211
sleep 2
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 up
sleep 2
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 $DUMMY_IP
sleep 2
/sbin/ifup wlan0
/sbin/route add default gw $GATEWAY
}
function stop() {
#
# Shut down the WLAN
#
echo "+++ Stopping WLAN..."
/sbin/route del default gw $GATEWAY
/sbin/ifdown wlan0
}

# are-we-running variable
WLANIF=`ifconfig | grep wlan0 | cut -c 1-5`

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in

start)
# Start WLAN if not already running
if [ "$WLANIF" != "wlan0" ]; then
start
else
echo "WLAN is already running!"
fi
;;
stop)
# Stop WLAN
if [ "$WLANIF" = "wlan0" ]; then
stop
else
echo "WLAN is not running!"
fi
;;

restart|reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

status)
if [ "$WLANIF" = "wlan0" ]; then
echo -n "WLAN is running...."
else
echo -n "WLAN not running."
fi
echo
;;

*)
echo "Usage: cgs-zd1211_control {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0

Thanks, I'll try this out also if the other thing doesn't work.

The boot.local file worked! Thanks!