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Topic: Every reboot, lose wireless settings, almost there, just missing something

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TimAllix

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Posted: Aug. 04 2006,06:27

I have DSL booting from Compact Flash, I finally got a PCMCIA wireless card to work (Gave up on SMC2532 with NDISWRAPPER, wasted days on this, bought a Dlink G650, worked out of the box

Anyhow, I opened .filetool.lst and added the line:

opt/myiwconfig.sh

... thinking this would save my wireless settings. I checked the myiwconfig.sh file, and it contained the correct channel and WEP settings.

Then, as per Dillo, I ran the backup button on the DSLpanel, and specified HDC1 (the CF card). The backup.tar.gz appeared in the /

I rebooted and expected the wireless card to come alive, but it doesn't.

I really don't understand the cheatcodes part of the instructions, possibly this is the missing link. Can anyone explain this to a dumb newbie?

clacker

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Posted: Aug. 04 2006,14:05

TimAllix, a "dumb newbie" you are not if you got your wireless card to work. "Dumb Newbie" is a state of mind.

You say you have a file called opt/myiwconfig.sh which (by the .sh extension) is a shell script. When you reboot can you open an xterminal and type /opt/myiwconfig.sh and see if the wireless is set up then? If it is, then all you need to do is add the line:

/opt/myiwconfig.sh

to the end of the /opt/bootlocal.sh script and save the backup again. The commands in bootlocal.sh are run when dsl boots up so your script will get run then. /opt/bootlocal.sh should already be in .filetool.lst.

TimAllix

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Posted: Aug. 04 2006,17:24

Thanks Clacker, that was the answer i was seeking. System boots and card connects right away.

I am still not fully understanding the processes at work, perhaps you can clear things up for me...

When I finally figured out that the myiwconfig.sh file held the necessary settings for the wireless card, I wasn't sure why the settings had been saved in the first place....

Was it because I added the line, /opt/myiwconfig.bs to the .filetools.lst file? Or were those settings saved the first time I ran a backup from the control console?

gauss

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Posted: Aug. 05 2006,03:40

My DSL 3.0.1 is installed on my hard drive and I, too, have problems with the persistence of network settings.

Code Sample

$ /etc/init.d/networking start

will bring up my wireless card correctly, so all the parameters must be stored correctly. But when I boot, "knoppix" insists on running dhcp when the parameters I've stored indicate static IPs. I tried linking the above script into rc3.d with

Code Sample

$ cd /etc/rc3.d
$ ln -s ../init.d/networking ./S03networking

but this doesn't help. Doesn't this get executed as the boot process reaches stage 3?