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Old 09-20-2007, 02:11 AM
lacloai lacloai is offline
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Default Activate NIC at boot time

Hello my virtual friends,

I have a question today for you guys if you don't mind. I got DSL(Damn Small Linux) installed and run on my old laptop. DSL does a very good job for the old hardware machine anyway compared with other distros like puppy, xubuntu, etc. My wireless nic works right away without loading the driver.

Ok. Now the only issue that I am having is everytime after I reboot my DSL and log in to my machine, my wireless nic doesn't get turned on at the boot time. So, to make it work, I have to run the command like ifup eth0 or /etc/init.d/networking restart . I don't want to do this every time I reboot or shut down the machine. I am wondering is there anyway that we can put that command in the start up script at boot time? I have tried to create a file with that command and put that file to /etc/rc5.d or either on /etc/init.d, but my wireless nic still doesn't get activated at boot time.

If you guys know how to do that with DSL, please hook me up. I think I am not smart enough to figure out. Thank you very much.

P/S: My DSL is setup and using dynamic IP from DHCP server. It is NOT configured for static IP address.

Last edited by lacloai; 09-20-2007 at 02:23 AM..
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