wireless network (working sorta)

Forum: Networking
Topic: wireless network (working sorta)
started by: darkwoofe

Posted by darkwoofe on July 28 2006,01:00

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

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sudo pump -k
sudo iwpriv wlan0 force_reset
sudo pump -i wlan0

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..?

Posted by roberts on July 28 2006,02:57

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.