I've installed DSL onto the harddrive of an old compaq presario 1610 laptop with great results. I had to do a little extra to get the touchpad to work but it's worth it. Anyway, I got my netcard installed and workng with no problem, but I had a heck of a time getting my linksys wireless-g notebook adapter (model WPC54GS) to work, mostly because the driver and card were detected, the wlancardconfig wouldn't detect the card. I got around this by using
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sudo pump wlan0
the first time. After that the wlancardconfig detected the card and I went ahead and set everything up. I then used prism2 and was connected before I knew what had happened. It's a very fast connection. After surfing around with it for an hour or so, I shut the laptop down. When I logged on again the wireless card wasn't working again. And this time, the sudo pump command wasn't enough to make the wlancardconfig find the thing. After a few other commands
and a few others I don't remember right now, something worked and I was able to use the config, although I didn't need to, as all of the old settings were saved. I did have to re enter my info in prism2, but after that, it connected right back up.
What I'd like to know is, Is there a way to save all of the settings that I have now so that I don't have to go through this every time I want to use the wireless card? Are there commands that I can enter that will do everythign automaticly on booting up?
I'm a noob to linux, just having started out with Ubuntu (on my desktop) a couple of weeks ago, and I don't understand half of what I did. I just searched the forum, and used whatever looked like it would work. If some could please help me out here..?Probably need to boot with the option nodhcp That way you don't have a hanging pump that you needed to stop. You can add your wireless commands to /opt/bootlocal.sh and then with a backup/restore your wireless card should work upon each boot. If you were able to sucessfully use one of the gui wireless scripts, then the input to such is saved as a script under /opt, e.g., myiwconf.sh.