HI there...
Where should I place the command "modprobe ndiswrapper" so it starts automatically ?
I got my RTL8180L wlan chipset up and running, but I have to start it manually every time.

I dumped ndiswrapper -m too early, when it did not work, yet. where can I reset those settings, so I can call ndiswrapper -m again to save my working settings ?

Thanks a lot for helping a total newbie...

Is this post redundant now - I see you got things working in your other post?

nope... it got it runnining, but whenever I reboot I get the wrong settings (probably the ones I saved with ndiswrapper -m) ... plus I still have to start it manually
so any help will be appreciated..
Thank you.

The card configuration is stored in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ directory. My wireless card config is called ifcfg-wlan0. This is where you can make the config stick. If you haven't got one of these you can create one using the ifcfg.template file and the wireless file in that directory as templates. You may have something like ifcfg-eth-id-01:23:45:67:89:ab which is a config file for an ethernet device with MAC address 01:23:45:67:89:ab. If so and this is the MAC address of your wireless card then modify that rather than create a new ifcfg-wlan0. For instance the interesting bits of my ifcfg-wlan0 file are as follows:

STARTMODE='hotplug'
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'

WIRELESS_ESSID='your_ESSID'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0='your_key'
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'

All the other settings are ''.

Because my laptop has onboard ethernet (which I usually use) and I can't guarantee the wireless card to be in the machine I set STARTMODE='hotplug' which then means that it doesn't load automatically on boot. However, all I then have to do is issue the 'iwconfig wlan0' command as root and it then brings the card up and reads the ifcfg-wlan0 file and works. Once I've brought it up it's then hotpluggable until I shut down.

If you want it to start always on boot then set

STARTMODE='onboot'

Initially I had to manually add default gateway as well but discovered the
BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes'
DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes'
settings which do that automatically.

If you don't use DHCP then you can set
BOOTPROTO='static'
but you then need values for
BROADCAST='192.168.x.255'
IPADDR='192.168.x.xxx'
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='192.168.x.0'

The WIRELESS configuration settings depend on your setup - these are the only ones I needed to change for my set up - look at the 'wireless' file in /etc/sysconfig/network/ to see what the defaults and options are.

Hope this helps.