Danny Luker wrote: > Thanks Richard, I have since made progress in the area of manually > bringing up wireless. I discovered, after much experimentation, that > I can get my interface to play well by giving it the following: > > iwconfig ap off
That's an 'odd' command to have to issue...how is your wireless network setup? Do you actually have an access point, or do you have another PC providing the network access? The first is generally known as managed mode, the other is ad-hoc mode. > iwconfig ath0 ap off > * Configuring wireless network for ath0 > * Connecting to "any" (WEP Disabled) ... Well, if you don't have an access point, I see the problem. At the point the 'Connecting to "any"...' message appears, the network scripts do the equivalent of "iwconfig ath0 essid any", which undoes your "ap off" command. If you are using ad-hock mode, you can try to set the following in /etc/conf.d/wireless: essid_ath0="off" mode_ath0="ad-hoc" The essid..off setting might cause an error. It isn't officially supported, although it should be a valid option to iwconfig for an essid. If it causes an error, just comment it out. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
