Can I execute a command at boot up?

**bigtobs** · August 14th, 2009

Hi all.
I need to <sudo modprobe ndiswrapper> to start my usb wifi adapter after each reboot it then works perfectly!
Any idea if I can write some sort of boot script to do this automatically?

**Finalfantasykid** · August 14th, 2009

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/rc.local

In the file you will see something like this...

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

exit 0

just put any commands you want executed at startup before exit 0, and it should run with full root privileges and everything.

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
exit 0

Thats probably what you want

**Firestem4** · August 14th, 2009

You can. Here is a very good guide on what runlevels you can place your startup scripts.

http://linux.com/news/enterprise/sys...nd-rcd-scripts

**bigtobs** · August 14th, 2009

Thanks Finalfantasykid just tried and it works perfectly.
and Firestorm4 thanks for the link.

I've spent so many years behind WINDOWS this really is a breath of fresh air!!