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Turning Wifi On at Boot

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July 8, 2014 1:36:03 AM

I'm dual booting SteamOS and Windows 8.1 on a laptop. I've got everything working as I want except for wifi. The wifi works, but it isn't on at boot, so I always have to go to the desktop, turn on the wifi there, and then log out and back into steam. Is there some way to make it so the wifi is turned on at boot?

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July 8, 2014 1:53:56 AM

Probably through your Boot Manager.
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July 8, 2014 2:02:44 AM

I'm not familiar with SteamOS. I had same problems in linux but my Wifi is via USB. I had to turn on IOMMU in motherboard BIOS for Linux to detect any of my USB-devices.

How exactly do you turn on Wifi? Can't you do that in SteamOS as well?
http://www.howtogeek.com/103640/how-to-make-programs-st...
Its the same in all flovors of whatever Mint is a flavor off, forgot now.
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July 8, 2014 2:14:50 AM

mamasan2000 said:
I'm not familiar with SteamOS. I had same problems in linux but my Wifi is via USB. I had to turn on IOMMU in motherboard BIOS for Linux to detect any of my USB-devices.

How exactly do you turn on Wifi? Can't you do that in SteamOS as well?
http://www.howtogeek.com/103640/how-to-make-programs-st...
Its the same in all flovors of whatever Mint is a flavor off, forgot now.


I don't have an option like that in my BIOS menu, but then my Wifi isn't via USB

SteamOS is based on Debian, and it has GNOME as a desktop environment. Right now, to turn on wifi, I have to go into the desktop, click on the network icon at the top of the screen and turn wifi on from there. After that, it's all good. What I'm asking is how the wifi can be set to turn on at boot.
I'll try the method in your link
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July 8, 2014 4:12:36 AM

I added /etc/init.d/network-manager to start up programs but that didn't solve it. Am I doing it wrong? Anything else I can try?
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September 12, 2014 10:34:57 PM

Been a while but...I found this
"I did find reference to automatically enabling wireless without a script. You can edit (as root) /etc/network/interfaces and add the following to the end of the file

auto wlan0

Not sure it'll work but easily reversibly by removing that line if it doesn't work after a restart."

Source: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=137704
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September 24, 2014 1:29:38 AM

remove that line temporarily and open a terminal and type lsmod copy the output and paste it here.
you can also save it directly to a text file.
lsmod > modules.txt
it will save it in the current working directory which is the home directory.
so after navigate to the home directory and you will find a text file named modules,
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