Bill Rucker wrote:
> Somewhere around Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:04:48PM +0200, a message
> from Richard Fish went like this:
>
>>> Jun 14 21:01:02 gt40 cardmgr[5320]: executing: './network start eth1
>>> 2>&1'
>>> Jun 14 21:01:02 gt40 cardmgr[5320]: + /usr/sbin/iwconfig eth1 channel 8
>>> Jun 14 21:01:02 gt40 cardmgr[5320]: + Error for wireless request
>>> "Set Frequency"
>>> (8B04) :
>>>
>>>
>> I'm not sure I understand this output...this happens even before the
>> net.eth1 script is executed, because the first thing it will do is try
>> to load modules, which causes the warning below. Did you modify the
>> pcmcia network script to add an iwconfig command?
>
>
> I have had my wireless working right along using pcmcia and the
> /etc/wireless/wireless.opts. There are no iwconfig parms set up in
> that file
> though, just pretty much the same info I have in this arrangement.
> Could having
> pcmcia set to run at default and trying to configure the wireless have
> something
> to do with the problem?
I took another look at the /etc/pcmcia/network script, and it seems that
it will run a the '/etc/pcmcia/wireless' script if it exists first,
which will try to set the channel if you have one specified in
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts. So, there seems to be a disconnect between
the pcmcia-cs scripts and the baselayout scripts on how the wireless
options should be specified and loaded.
>>Ok, this message happens if "iwlist eth1 scanning" doesn't produce any
>>output on stdout. Could you try running that command and see what you get?
>>
>>
>
>This is what I get when I run that command:
>eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported
>
>
Well, that explains it!
So, as the message says, the 'official' ways to get around this is to set:
essid_eth1="any"
or:
prefered_aps_eth1=( "Speeder" )
associate_order_eth1="forcepreferredonly"
or a couple of other methods that don't sound as interesting. The
comments in wireless.example have the full documentation.
There is also the brute-force method, which is to remove the iwconfig
module from the eth1 module list, and create a preup function in
/etc/conf.d/net that associates the wireless before ifconfig or the dhcp
client runs.
-Richard
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