Hi all, I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the command line. After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for the wireless lan card is "off", so I need to know how to turn the wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. thanks, Mark
On Jan 7, 2008 6:10 PM, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card > (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to > activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system > boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection > until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the > command line.what about running your script from the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Start it at the end of it, but be careful if your scrip block the boot process, your systm will block! Be sure to have a rescue CD ready. Regards> > After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for > the wireless lan card is "off", so I need to know how to turn the > wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. > > How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? > > I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. > > > thanks, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Alain Spineux aspineux gmail com May the sources be with you
Have you try checking your bios if the wireless is default to off? On 1/7/08, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card > (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to > activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system > boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection > until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the > command line. > > After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for > the wireless lan card is "off", so I need to know how to turn the > wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off. > > How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio? > > I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card. > > > thanks, > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >