how do I start wlan0 on bootup?

[megsdad]

Hi,

I've been able to get a laptop on Fedora 14 (2.6.35.6-48) working with a Netgear WNA1100 (thanks to the post on Nov 19th by tasha302!), and using ndiswrapper-r2728. Once up and running, I execute "ifconfig wlan0 up" from root, and everything connects just fine and is stable as long as I stay logged in. But, I haven't found how to do this automatically on boot.

I've tried to use NetworkManager, but I cannot figure out how to get the GUI to show up - it says its running and enabled in the Services gui, but I haven't figured out how to actually use it! I checked to see if the nm-applet is running with ps, and for the user login, I see:

nm-applet --sm-disable

I'm not sure if the "sm-disable" flag is my problem, or how to change it. I'm not even sure if NetworkManager will allow me to set things up for bootup, but that is the path I ran down...

I assume this is a fundamentally easy process to set this up on bootup, but I'm not stumbling across the method. I recall doing this kind of thing years ago when I was an engineer, and before I got my lobotomy to become a manager...

Thanks,

Mark

[xander2k]

Hi , you can make a script and put it to start-up by using /etc/rc.d/rc.local file . You can put the path/to/script or else you can wirte commands directly in rc.local file.