simple Gentoo, help loading wireless at boot

lucastic · 05-14-2004, 03:50 PM

Hello All,

Writing from my newly configured WG311 802.11g wireless device. Yay.

But I have one question, with Gentoo what is the easiest way to initialize a simple scripts that starts my wireless drivers and shutsdown any normal eth connections, the adds route etc. Works like a dream accept now every time I boot I have to log on as root and type ./mywirelessscript

I had a look on the Gentoo main doc. pages but could not find anything that explained this simple process of initializing a script at startup. There was plenty on init scripts...

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

SirGertrude · 05-14-2004, 07:00 PM

I made a script that executes my iptables configurating like this:

1. create a new file in /etc/init.d (my file is named "nat") This will be your init script.

2. edit my init script below so that the path points to your wireless script (my script path is "/scripts/nat")

3. paste the modified init script in your init script on your machine.

4. # rc-update add nat default (replace nat with your init script name)

5. reboot

My init script:

Code:

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-firewall/shorewall/files/shorewall,v 1.4 2004/03/04 19:20:40 vapier Exp $

opts="start stop restart"

depend() {
	before local
}

start() {
	ebegin "Starting NAT"
	/scripts/nat
	eend $? 
}

stop() {
	ebegin "Stopping NAT"
	/scripts/natstop
	eend $?
}

restart() {
	ebegin "Restarting NAT"
	/scripts/nat
	eend $?
}

In my init script this will run "/scripts/nat" when the system boots and "/scripts/natstop" when shutting down. You could prob use the same script for start, stop, and restart. See if this works for you.

lucastic · 05-15-2004, 05:07 AM

Thankyou very much. Works perfectly.

Used the same script (/root/wifi) for start, stop and restart. I will write another small script for stop soon, to reactivate eth0 and kill ath0.

I am starting to REALLY love gentoo!!

PS does anyone know if it is not a good idea to have such scripts and drivers (as my wifi drivers currently reside in /root) in the /root folder?