Somewhere around Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:07:14AM +0200, a message from Richard Fish went like this: > 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
I don't have much to add to this thread with the exception that my wireless also got clobbered with the new baselayout. I've got a thread going on the forums that hasn't been answered in a couple of days now, but nothing I do with the config of /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net seems to make a bit of difference. Link to the thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-347809-highlight-.html I have no problems starting the card manually whatsoever. My driver is built into the kernel so just need to: # iwconfig eth1 essid Speeder key 'key_here' # ifconfig eth1 up # dhcpcd eth1 After that the card works fine. The original message I got from trying /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start is that my card doesn't support scanning. Which it does, or at least it has always seemed to. Then I got a message later on in playing with it that said it didn't support setting keys. Now in order to do my testing, I typed in my WEP key to a text editor and then copied and pasted it into both the /etc/conf.d/wireless file and the command line. (I'm lazy and typing that thing gets really old). Its kind of frustrating, but the best suggestion I've heard so far is to back out the baselayout until someone comes up with something that just might work. Bill -- Protect your computer - Browse with Firefox! Gentoo Linux - Flexible, Powerful Just because something doesn't do what you planned, doesn't mean its useless. Thomas Edison
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