modprobe and iwconfig at boot (SOLVED)

Ignatius881 · Last edited by Ignatius881 on Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:42 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello.

Well, I don't want to write these commands everytime I boot my system. And I want to know if there is a way to automatize the process.

This is what I have to write after login:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 1:24 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

Since you are using wireless-tools you can add the configuration to /etc/init.d/net
There is a fully commented example at /usr/share/doc/openrc-0.9.4/net.example.bz2

To automate what you have written (you should not need to) put the commands into a file in /etc/local.d/ with a file name ending in .start.

Read the script /etc/init.d/local to see whats going on. Essentaily, all files in /etc/local.d/ with names ending in .start are run at startup.
Files ending in .stop are run at shutdown
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Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:07 pm Post subject:

Thanks, it seems that it's working well

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:49 pm Post subject:

No, sorry, I was wrong.

I created the file /etc/local.d/wifi.start with these commands, including the dhcpcd wlan0, and I still have to activate manually the connection, either writing ifconfig wlan0 up or writing everything. And I also wrote these commands in /etc/init.d/net.

Apart from that, when booting, a message about wpa_supplicant appears.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:47 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

Something has installed wpa-supplicant for you because its trying to start but can't because its configuration file is missing.
If you use wicd, you must not start any network services with the normal gentoo network scripts because wicd and teh scripts will both try to do something simalar at the same time. Neither will work.

You should ensure that only the net.lo script exixts in /etc/init.d/

Do you really mean that wicd has been added to the boot runlevel or the defualt runlevel?
net.lo is the only network interface that should be in the boot runlevel. All the others and wicd should be in defualt.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
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those that have never had a hard drive fail.

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:22 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot, now I can say that it works perfectly