modprobe.conf question

[guizhou_donkey]

Hi, i was wondering if anyone could help me with setting up modprobe.conf so that my wireless driver will automatically load.

I installed drivers for my notebook wireless card (Intel Wireless 3945ABG) and can connect to the net fine. Before i can connect however i first have to initialize the wireless card as root (e.g. sudo /sbin/modprobe ipw3945; /sbin/ipw3945d).

I found the readme for the intel driver on google (http://www.bughost.org/ipw3945/daemon/README.ipw3945d), and they mention that you should be able to set up a configuration for modprobe (modprobe.conf) so that the driver is initialized automatically at boot-up. I've never messed around with this file though, and couldn't find it on my system (fc6).

Does anyone have any experience with this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!
Keith

[dcrowder32]

Try /etc/modprobe.conf

[guizhou_donkey]

looked there.. didn't exist

[linux_paul]

Have you tried man modprobe.conf?

[Seve]

Hello:
What does
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
show

Seve

[guizhou_donkey]

Yea, i checked out the man pages for modprobe.conf, but i'm still not clear on how to set it up for what i need.


[localhost ~]$ sudo /sbin/modprobe ipw3945

[localhost ~]$ sudo /sbin/ipw3945d
ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
version: 1.7.22
Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection found at:
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945/0000:04:00.0
Daemon launched as pid 2919. Exiting.

[localhost ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
cat: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0: No such file or directory

[localhost ~]$ show
bash: show: command not found

[Seve]

cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
cat: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0: No such file or directory

[localhost ~]$ show
bash: show: command not found
[/CODE]
Hello:
When you have your network connected and you type in a terminal
system-config-network
and select the Edit tab what are the settings there?
Nickname etc.

Seve

[guizhou_donkey]

Hi,

I attached two images of settings below. ("tsunami" is name of wireless network i connect to at school).

Thanks,
Keith

[Seve]

Hello:
Try changing your Nickname to ath0
the 0 is numercial
Save, exit and either restart your network or better yet reboot.
normally, eth0 would denote the first Ethernet card
and ath0 would be the wireless

When you reboot type
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
and see what the information is ouput.

Seve

[guizhou_donkey]

here ya go:


[localhost ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ath0
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
HWADDR=00:18:de:11:d8:2a
ESSID=tsunami
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE='0 kb/s'

[Seve]

Hello:
Does your network card come up on boot now?


Edit:
Just noticed this thread ..... same card I believe, and a posted solution.
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=137730

Seve