I have a problem getting my PCMCIA wireless adapter (Buffalo WLI-CB-G54HP-US with Broadcom BCM4318 chipset, pciid 14e4:4318 rev.02) working properly in a Toshiba laptop, running Xandros v.3.0.2 (a variant of Debian).
I'm using a Windows driver (bcmwl5.inf/bcmwl5.sys, downloaded from Dell) with ndiswrapper v.1.2, and I almost fully succeed in getting my wireless network initialized. The only thing that's lacking is that I don't get a DHCP lease for my wireless interface eth1, or eth1 isn't brought up at all, and therefore I don't get a functioning connection. I can rectify this by running "dhclient eth1" or "ifup eth1" in a console as root, and this single step succeeds in giving me a working wireless connection. I'm still working at trying to understand the underlying flaw. But for now, I'm just looking for a way to automate this single step that finalizes initialization of the interface. Putting "dhclient eth1" in /etc/profile doesn't work; I still have to open a bash shell and login as root. Similarly, putting it into ~/.bashrc probably won't work because the privileges would be inadequate. My question to the networking gurus here: Where can I put such a simple extension of the user environment? Does it have to be in a separate shell script that goes somewhere in the startup sequence close to /etc/rcS.d/S40xxxxx, or can I add it to /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh? How? I'm not adept at writing shell scripts. If a separate script is required, could you post a complete example and tell me where to place it? Thanks. Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]