saving wifi settings

Forum: HD Install
Topic: saving wifi settings
started by: alanfarfield

Posted by alanfarfield on July 05 2005,15:21

hello all.
i think dsl is a fantastic bit of work.ive tried everything on my medion lappy, this is the only that has worked.
ive got a problem with my wireless .i set up ath0, channel number and wep key in the control panel,but i cant save it to the hard disk.
do i need to edit lilo.conf with the restore option ?
help is much appreciated.
thanks

Posted by SuperLou on July 05 2005,17:35

Hi there,

What kind of install are you using?

Posted by alanfarfield on July 05 2005,20:30

i installed to my hard drive.

Posted by SuperLou on July 05 2005,22:39

If you have a hard drive install it's just like any other linux distro (i'm pretty sure). You don't need to bother with the restore and backup options. Do you know the name and location of the files where the changes are saved to?

Posted by alanfarfield on July 06 2005,08:58

thanks.
i just need to know how to manually set my wireless card up. i dont want to have to keep setting up after dsl has booted.the backup option doesnt save the settings.

Posted by SuperLou on July 06 2005,13:51

I'm pretty sure with a HD install you shouldn't need to backup. The settings should be saved between boots. What do you do to set it up? If it's some simple commands you can stick them in one of the scripts that are run at startup (.bash_profile is one, there's a better one to use, something like startup.sh, but I forget where it is).

Posted by madbeaver on July 12 2005,17:05

Hi Alan,

I'm trying to do that onto my pendrive too. Just started to look at this... will update if I find out how.

Good Luck :;):

Posted by SuperLou on July 12 2005,19:42

With a pendrive you want to do a usb pen drive install using backup/restore. If you just do a regular install, you will read/write the usb drive way to often and the usb pendrive will go bad. By using backup/restore at the end of each session you will virtually never reach the write limit.

Posted by Mugsy Malone on July 20 2005,16:35

I have done a hd install, and it keeps the wireless config, but I always have to go in and reconfigure the netcard to give it access.

I am trying to put this system together for my very techno-illiterate neighbor. I need a solution that will automatically have the internet available on boot - no "go into restore" or any of that jazz.

Any ideas? I found a hint that said something about putting the network-script into the boot, except the script it refers to is not on my installation.

Posted by SuperLou on July 20 2005,17:52

Do you have a script you want to run at boot? If so just enter it in ~./xinitrc . If not I here making them isn't too tough, I haven't tried them myself.

Posted by Mugsy Malone on July 22 2005,14:08

OK, this is incredibly sloppy, but here's how I got it to persist the wifi settings.

I put the following commands in /opt/bootlocal.sh

ifdown eth0
iwconfig eth0 mode Managed
iwconfig eth0 esside <MyNetworkName>
ifup eth0

It works - gives some multicast errors on boot, but now I can give my neighbor his computer back with it automagically getting on the internet on boot.

Posted by SuperLou on July 22 2005,18:13

Cool. Sorry, I can't think of a better way myself. Try the irc room on irc.freenode.net in channel #damnsmalllinux