[SOLVED] WLAN is gone ...

vol1 · Last edited by vol1 on Sun Sep 19, 2004 5:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I'm using Gentoo on my Laptop. WLAN used to work fine (on eth0) with cardmgr until I emerged hotplug. Since then eth0 was the 100Mbit-LAN adapter (which was unrecognized before), and my WLAN card moved to eth1.

I have no idea how to get WLAN back :oops:

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Can anybody help me with my problem?

Thanks in advance,
vol1

UberLord · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject:

vol1 · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: Didn't work :-(

Hi,

thank you for your quick reply. I did as you wrote (except of editing the /etc/conf.d/wireless file - it doesn't exist), but nothing changed :cry:

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Got any hints/ideas?

Thanks again,
vol1

UberLord · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject:

Well, there's nothing else you can do really.

Depending on how your system is setup depends on which name gets assigned to network devices. On my PC I have eth0 (wired) and ath0 (wireless). The names are different (decided by driver, not you) and as such all end with 0's as they're the only instance.

My lappy on the other hand has eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless). If I choose not to load (or compile into the kernel) my wired ethernet module then eth1 (wireless) becomes eth0 as the wired module no longer exists.

Clear? Good

So this means that you have two choices
1) Recompile your kernel without any support for your wired network card
2) Load the wireless module before the wired module
3) Live with it atm and change existing references in your config from eth0 to eth1
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vol1 · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I think I'll pick option 2. Can you tell me how to determine to order in which modules are loaded?

Thanks for your time and help,
vol1

UberLord · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:18 pm Post subject:

vol1 · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 7:52 pm Post subject:

Although I'll try opt. 2 and recompile my kernel.

But just to learn something:

UberLord · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 10:01 pm Post subject:

vol1 · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I did add net.eth1 to the default runlevel and after changing all "ifac_eth1" entries in /etc/conf.d/net to "ifconfig_eth1" WLAN finally worked again.

Thank you,
vol1.