Ndiswrapper with Slackware Question

Kranfer · 10-28-2005, 06:54 AM

Greetings:

I am a n00b to Linux, however I am a programmer (c, C++, Java, etc) I am just wondering can any of you point me in the right direction to get NDISwrapper Automated so that I don't need to run the commands in the terminal to get it to work? So when I boot into Slackware it loads a profile or searches for networks and asks for the WEP key etc? KWifiManager seems to work alrighty... But after I do all the commands to tell it the ESSID and the WEP key etc...

Thanks!

bathory · 10-28-2005, 07:24 AM

You can write a script (named for example ndisscript) to include all the commands you use to setup your wireless network. For example:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig wlan0 ESSID "whatever"
iwconfig mode managed
iwconfig key xxxxxxxxx
...
ifconfig wlan0 up
...

You can put that script in /etc/rc.d and make it executable "chmod +x ndisscript" and add a line with the name of that script in /etc/rc.d/rc.local

XavierP · 10-28-2005, 07:25 AM

I simply put the commands into rc.local - either way is good

Kranfer · 10-28-2005, 05:26 PM

Yeah but is there any GUI program that will work as a Wireless Card configuration type thing?

XavierP · 10-29-2005, 06:18 AM

If you run KDE, KWifiManager can do this. Gnome probably has something similar.