Hi all, The other night I did an emerge sync; emerge world -vu and got a new and improved version of baselayout. I screwed up and let etc-update clobber all my config files (stupid I know ;() ... anyway, I've recovered from it except I can't get wireless working. It all was so simple before. Even doing it manually was simple but I can't get it to connect (associate) with my access points. Before all this I could do it manually by:
# modprobe ath_pci // using the madwifi drivers on my Thinkpad T40 # ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.53 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0 and there I was ... but that simple procedure works no more after that update. Reading over http://dev.gentoo.org/~uberlord/net-book/ I saw where many things have changed but it seems odd that all this would alter the outcome of manually bringing up the interface. I have simlinked /etc/init.d/net.ath0 ---> /etc/init.d/net.lo per instructions. I have made numerous changes and edits to /etc/conf.d/net and wireless etc. attempting different modes, specifying my essid and also essid of "any" and on and on. (Never had to mess with any of this before). I guess I am hoping that someone might know the thing that I am obviously missing in all this baselayout stuff. Even my wired networking is messed up but I can still configure it by hand at least. Thank you, Danny Luker Thinkpad T40 with pci wireless a/b networking using the madwifi drivers and wireless-tools. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
