[CentOS] Turning Wireless Radio on and off: how?

Tue Jan 8 03:27:44 UTC 2008
Alain Spineux <aspineux at gmail.com>

On Jan 7, 2008 6:10 PM, Mark Weaver <mdw1982 at mdw1982.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 1501 with a Broadcom 1390 Wlan mini card
> (integrated) wireless lan chipset. I've got an init script setup to
> activate the wireless connection at boot time, however when the system
> boots the adapter doesn't connect. I'm not able to get a connection
> until after the desktop is done loading and I run the script from the
> command line.

what about running your script from the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
Start it at the end of it, but be careful if your scrip block the boot
process, your systm will block! Be sure to have a rescue CD ready.

Regards

>
> After some log review apparently as the system is booting the radio for
> the wireless lan card is "off", so I need to know how to turn the
> wireless radio on just before the init script for the adapter fires off.
>
> How can I turn on/off the wireless lan radio?
>
> I'm using ndiswrapper and the dell windows driver for this wireless card.
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Mark
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