10.3 Network Manager Problem

I am running 10.3 GNOME using a Thinkpad T21 with a Linksys WPC11 V4 PCMCIA WIFI card in it. It's been a long while since I used nDiswrapper, but I shot over to AndrewD's great site and after some playing around with nDiswrapper and drivers I got it to work. Here's my problem, and I'm sure the answer is a simple one; I can only enable wlan0 if I manually enable it using 'ifconfig wlan0 up' or something similar. wlan0 will start up for that session. but if I reboot it does not come up automagically, I have to manually bring up the interface every time. Well you might suggest; you need to define 'start at boot' or 'start on cable connect' in YaST network card config, or disable NM and use the 'manual if up' method, or maybe try kinternet. I've tried all combinations of options in YaST and kinternet, no deal. In fact if I do an iwconfig prior to bringing up wlano manually I get 'no wireless extensions', as if it doesn't exist. After I enable the interface, iwconfig returns a normal result. Ideas? I'd be happy just creating an item in some startup file that enables the interface for me. For the life of me I can't remember where I might be able to do that? I only use wireless on this laptop.

Hello harryc

I needed to run modprobe ndiswrapper (inexplicably) to get my wlan up on booting, so I put that in /etc/init.d/boot.local
Here's the story: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.ph...c=61149&hl=
Modprobe ndiswrapper might or might not work for you, but the boot.locat might be useful.
If your ifconfig wlan0 up needs to wait for a different runlevel you could use this line in a root crontab:

@reboot sleep 10;ifconfig wlan0 up

Swerdna

swerda thanks. It was /etc/init.d/boot.local I was trying to remember. I appreciate the help.