How do I get wireless setting to stick with 8.04

sdrambo · 05-18-2008, 10:43 PM

When the computer is rebooted I need to run sudo modprobe ndiswrapper everytime to restore my wlan0, how do I automate the process. The card is a WG311v3 BTW. Thanks

indienick · 05-18-2008, 10:47 PM

It depends on which distribution you are running, as different distributions have their sysvinit scripts set up differently. In the title of your post, though, I'm seeing "8.04" which makes me think it's a *buntu of some sort. Since *buntus are branched off of Debian, try the following:

Code:

$ sudo echo "modprobe ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

spurious · 05-19-2008, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by indienick

It depends on which distribution you are running, as different distributions have their sysvinit scripts set up differently. In the title of your post, though, I'm seeing "8.04" which makes me think it's a *buntu of some sort. Since *buntus are branched off of Debian, try the following:

Code:

$ sudo echo "modprobe ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

Actually, for Ubuntu, it should be

Code:

$ sudo echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...tgear_WG311_v3

sdrambo · 05-19-2008, 01:26 AM

Thanks for the replies, Ill give it a try.

sdrambo · 05-19-2008, 01:42 AM

That did not work,
ian@IansIntel:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
[sudo] password for ian:
ian@IansIntel:~$ sudo echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules
bash: /etc/modules: Permission denied
ian@IansIntel:~$

The first instruction got the wlan0 functioning, BTW I tried ndiswrapper with the -m switch and that did not work either. Where am I going wrong with this!

indienick · 05-19-2008, 08:10 AM

Sorry about that.

I ran into the same problem as before. It's easier to just do it as root:

Code:

$ su
Password: [type in the root password]
# echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/modules

sdrambo · 05-19-2008, 04:20 PM

The su command does not work with Kubuntu, Ive tried the ndiswrapper switches again,
ian@IansIntel:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive
ian@IansIntel:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -mi
module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
ian@IansIntel:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -v
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.52
vermagic: 2.6.24-16-generic SMP mod_unload 586
Ill see if it works better this time.

sdrambo · 05-19-2008, 11:03 PM

I think the ndiswrapper -mi switch did the trick.