Have you try checking your bios if the wireless is default to off? On 1/7/08, 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. > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >