RH8 and wireless network problem ?

[tridion]

Hi,

I have installed RH8. After install I noticed that in the systems settings/network gui, there is no mention of my Netgear MA401/MA301. From a terminal, I entered :

modprobe hermes
modprobe orinoco
modprobe orinoco_plx

After this my netgear card is detected in the network gui. After this in the devices tab of the network gui, I have added a wireless connection with my settings and then activated it. I have also edited to state that it should be activated when the system is booting.

After this I can ping my network and browse the internet (EUREKA !!)

However, after I reboot, these settings are lost and I have to repeat the procedure.

How do I make these settings permanent and therefore the network start up at boot ?

[Wallex]

Well you could modify your initialization scripts in /etc/init.d/ so that it does whatever you want it to do at bootup time. The file is usually called rc.local, altough it depends on the distro... on SuSe I had to modify the file called boot.local. You could as well search for which script at boot up handles the net so you could go and directly change that one, altough the boot scripts are a mess to understand in some distros...

[tridion]

Thanks ! I edited the rc.local file and put the 3 modprobe lines in it and now everything works fine.

I dont want to start messing the network scripts as I am a complete novice so this solution will do me just fine.

At last ! Thanks again !!!