When trying to make wireless work on my eee 701, trying to ifup the
interface produces:
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
Can't attach interface ath0 to bpf device /dev/bpf0: No such device or
address
Failed to bring up ath0.
/dev/bpf0 is present but doesn't appear as if there's a d
Hi,
On 16/09/12 12:54, David Given wrote:
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
> Can't attach interface ath0 to bpf device /dev/bpf0: No such device or
> address
> Failed to bring up ath0.
You might see more clearly what ifup is doing with the -v switch.
It looks like a different er
On 16/09/12 12:54, David Given wrote:
> [...] the config file in /boot/config-9.0-2-686 does not have a
> 'device bpf' entry.
I just noticed that file is merely a copy of the DEBIAN config file, so
the includes are mentioned at the bottom, but they're not 'in-lined'.
For the running kernel you ca
On 16/09/12 13:12, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
[...]
> You might see more clearly what ifup is doing with the -v switch.
>
> It looks like a different error happens first.
Yep; turns out that dhclient is failing because the device has failed to
be initialised because wpa-supplicant is confused. I t
On 16/09/12 16:12, David Given wrote:
[...]
> wpa_supplicant[2036]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=16, arg_len=0]: Invalid argument
> wpa_supplicant[2036]: ath0: Failed to initialize driver interface
> wpa_supplicant[2036]: ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5
> eloop_data=0x8122178 user_data=0x8122530 handler=0x
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