Wireless Cards & Drivers

[Graeme Nichols]

Ryan Sawhill wrote:
>> My question to the list is; How can I load and activate the driver as the
>> machine boots?  In what directory do I put the driver?
> 
> If you put the module somewhere like /lib/modules/$(uname
> -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless, then you could just create a file
> under /etc/modprobe.d/ that binds it to eth1 (or eth0). Explicitly,
> like so:
> echo "alias eth1 rt2860sta" > /etc/modprobe.d/ralink
> 
Thank you Ryan,

That works just fine.

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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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