Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Here is an attempt to start it
manually. I've asterisked "HWaddr. The complaint about
"Cannot read /proc/net/wireless" looks ominous.
[aa1][root][~] lsmod
Module Size Used by
ath9k 96655 0
mac80211 161048 1 ath9k
ath9k_common 3536 1 ath9k
ath9k_hw 283965 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
ath 8604 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
cfg80211 114837 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
[aa1][root][~] /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
* Stopping wlan0
* Bringing down wlan0
* Shutting down wlan0 ... [ ok ]
* Starting wlan0
* Bringing up wlan0 [ ok ]
[aa1][root][~] iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 no wireless extensions.
[aa1][root][~] ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr **:**:**:**:**:**
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
[aa1][root][~] iwconfig wlan0 essid any
Cannot read /proc/net/wireless
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
[aa1][root][~]
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Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
