WMP54G & RT61PCI Wont Auto Connect

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Sat Feb 16 08:34:12 UTC 2008


Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Everything works except the adapter wont auto 
> connect on bootup.  Annoying that I must perform "sudo
> ifdown wlan0" and sudo "ifup wlan0" once I can access
> a terminal before it connects; sudo ifup wlan0 alone
> wont do it. Is there some boot command I could use to
> get it to autoconnect or anything anyone knows that
> would get the adapter to autoconnect.

You could edit the file /etc/rc.local as root and put your commands before 
the line "exit 0". Then the last lines would look like this:

ifdown wlan0
ifup wlan0
exit 0

Please note: You don't need sudo here because the file is executed by 
root.


Nils




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