wlan0 not connecting to router - new installation [SOLVED]

[Tony0945]

The router's logs show nothing.
/var/log/messages excerpt:

[NeddySeagoon]

Tony0945,

[Tony0945]

[UberLord]

[Tony0945]

Started service with --debug flag:

[NeddySeagoon]

Tony0945,

Having two interfaces on the same subnet is a really bad idea.
You might have two default routes too. Only one will ever be used.

It can be made to work but its best avoided.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[Tony0945]

NeddySeagoon, how can I fire up wireless only if wired failed? Right now I have net.eth0 in boot level and net.wlan0 in default level. I disconnected the ethernet plug and rebooted. Sure enough net.eth0 failed and net.wlan0 came up. So that part works.

On my network, the router knows to assign separate ip addresses to the two different MAC addresses. This will not be so at the netbook's true home (my sister's house).

I think this can be done by not symlinking net.wlan0 to net.lo but copying it instead and altering the need line from " need localmount" to something like "need localmount && !net.eth0" but am unsure of the syntax. The intent is to block wan0 if eth0 is up.

I see links how to do this with networkmanager and dhcpd but I use openrc (old version) netifrc and busybox.

History: This was a Windows 8 box. While in the hospital my sister cancelled Comcast (she's moving) and I tried to remove their software from her computer which runs slower than a turtle. Someone (a Comcast tech?) installed ConstantGuard on top of Norton System Protect and destroyed the admin interface in the process. In deep frustration from grayed out system stuff and a computer running slower than molasses, I ordered a new WD hard drive, removed the old hard drive in case she doesn't like the linux, and installed gentoo with refind and Mate on the new drive. It boots rather snappy now (for a one lung CPU) and has a much better looking interface than Openshell on Win8. T-bird and FF are rather slow but maybe it's because they are the bin distriubtions. It seems like a nightmare to try and build FF on this box. Palemoon-bin from overlay is faster, can't complain about it. And once I copied her T-Bird profile from Windows (was easy!), all her extensions and e-mail are there. T-bird is reasonably fast once it loads. I didn't do emerge -e world, but hundreds of packages were built native in the course of installing Mate and OpenRC (downgraded from the horrible latest version), eudev (likewise downgraded) and updating gcc to 6.4.0 and rebuilding the toolchain. Native FF and T-bird mightbe faster but be a nightmare to build. I copied my config from the A8-7600 box (also radeon and UEFI) changed the firmware to the right files, updated the device drivers and compiled using native). I think she will like the look and feel and Gentoo is more secure than Win8 even after I applied over 100 updates.

She is used to plugging in the ethnet cable because comcast's wireless is unreliable (from across the room!). I think it's because she was in a large apartment building and comcast uses their customer's boxes as a free wifi hotspot. She's moving to a house and AT*T Uverse so the wireless might be better. It's running well here in my house . I know I'll have to edit the ssid and passphrase at her new house.

[UberLord]