On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
> On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
>>> before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
>>> previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
>>> the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
>>>
>> I use wpa_supplicant to provide the wifi crypto.
>>> So, I'm left with trying to use the iwl3945 driver in the kernel. I
>>> followed the wiki for setting this up and thought I had succeeded. I
>>> got to the point where I was told to type the following:
>>> ifconfig wlan0 up (this does activate the wireless led on my computer)
>>> iwlist wlan0 scan
>>> iwconfig wlan0 essid "network name" (where the network name is the
>>> essid that has been set)
>>>
>>> When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the "kludgy"
>>> way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I
>>> type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes,
>>> I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
>>> kernel was rebuilt.
>>>
>>> I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
>> Forgetting to post up your configs :) eg /etc/conf.d/net etc
> I've used the iwl3945 on a few HP laptops without much problem. The few
> problems I had were related to switching the wireless on and off; I'd
> have to rmmod and modprobe kernel modules to get it working again.
>
> Does "ifconfig" list the interface? If not, what does "ifconfig wlan0
> up" do? What about the output of "iwconfig"? And going for the obvious
> here, any chance that the wireless is turned off?
>
> Jake Moe
>
>
iwconfig lists the interface as wlan0
I discovered last night after sending my original message that my
symlink was wrong - I used to have net.eth0 and net.eth1 pointing to
net.lo. However, last night I removed the net.eth1 symlink and created
the net.wlan0 symlink to net.lo. Now when I boot the computer, my
wireless comes up and the LED comes on, but then it times out because (I
assume) it can't establish a connection.
This is my /etc/conf.d/net file. Note that the "any" used to work when
I used the ipw3945 driver. I would scan for available networks. I
tried last night to change the "any" to the essid printed on my Bell
router, but that didn't work.
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
#preup() {
# if [[ ${IFACE} = "wlan0" ]]; then
# sleep 3
# fi
# return 0
#}
modules=( "iwconfig" )
iwconfig_wlan0="mode managed"
config_eth0=("dhcp")
config_wlan0=("dhcp")
wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
essid_wlan0="any"
Regards,
Colleen
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