WiFi - Asus F5RL - how to start automatically?

[Kazislav]

Hi.
I have a problem with my wireless card. I want to install Mint 6 on my girlfriend laptop and i found that i need to execute one command in order to make wifi work:

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echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan


because after booting the wifi led is off.
And my question is: How to make it permanent so it will start automatically or sth?

[Husse]

A somewhat dirty* work around is

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gksu gedit /etc/rc.local

add the line you want executed between the comments and exit 0 - the exit 0 has to be the very last line

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    echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/asus-laptop/wlan

* dirty because rc.local is not "supposed to be used" in Ubuntu, but it works...

[Fred]

Don't forget to set rc.local to execute. I don't think Debian/Ubuntu/Mint sets the execute bit by default anymore.

sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local

Fred

[Husse]

Thanks Fred, but I checked it is set to execute

[Fred]

Husse,

Thanks for correcting me. I was thinking they had discontinued that.

Fred

[Kazislav]

Thanks for help I'll try this today. I hope everything will be working on this laptop "out of the box". LiveCD was almost perfect (putting laptop on sleep wasn't working).
And sorry for question out of topic but if i understand well, Ubuntu/Mint have drivers for my hardware already on board and it is a matter of turning on the hardware. but why i saw somewhere something with using Madwifi etc. Will it influence performance or sth?

[Husse]

Madwifi is not a default application in Mint
It is a network manager - one of many - and something to try out if the default does not work

[Kazislav]

Ok, Thanks for help