How does FC run on Dell Insiration?

[Terry Snyder]

On 11/27/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> Terry Snyder wrote:
> > I followed all of the instructions on
> > http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ for the Intel Proset Wireless card.
> > There was a firmware package that was part of the download.  So far
> > I haven't been playing with it enough to get the cards drivers to
> > load on boot with out having to manually run the load script.
> >
> > If anyone knows how to get it to load at startup I would like to
> > here it.  I have added some things to the modprobe.conf file and the
> > rc.local file but it still doesn't run the script.
>
> There's the driver module, the firmware, and the binary regulatory
> daemon (ugh!).  I'm guessing that perhaps the issue you're having is
> that the reg daemon isn't getting started properly on boot?  I've got
> nothing in /etc/modprobe.conf (or modprobe.d/) for the module and it's
> loading automatically for me using NetworkManager.  (I used the
> network service in FC5 and had that working automatically as well.)
>
> To get the daemon started you can add it to /etc/rc.local or you can
> create an init script that'll all you to control it like any other
> service.  For an example of such an initscript, see the rpmforge.net
> package[1].  If you put this in /etc/init.d/ipw3945d and make it
> executable you can then add it using chkconfig like so
>
>     # chkconfig --add ipw3945d
>
> That should make the daemon start automatically at boot time.
>
> [1] http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/ipw3945d/ipw3945d.init
>
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Do you have anything like and alias eth1 ipw3945 in modprobe.conf either?
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Terry Snyder Jr
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