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blixel
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 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:24 am Post subject: wireless-config 0.5.0 broken? |
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I was setting up Gentoo on my other machine and when I was getting ready to setup wireless, I noticed that wireless-config-0.5.0 was available. So I put it on that machine and couldn't get it to work. After mucking around for an hour, I finally downgraded to 0.4.10 and then I got right on my WAP.
So then I upgraded my laptop from 0.4.10 to 0.5.0 to do some more testing. It too was unable to get an IP address from my WAP.... and downgrading back to 0.4.10 solved the problem.
It just seemed to me that 0.5.0 wasn't running dhcpcd? I poked around /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/conf.d/wireless turning various dhcp settings off and on and nothing worked. Downgrading was all I could do. |
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blixel
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| Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| UberLord wrote: | | I've posted a new ebuild - try that first and then get back to me :) |
Looks good. The update went off without a hitch on both my Desktop (PCI Wireless) and Laptop (PC-Card wireless)
I ran etc-update and overwrote /etc/init.d/wireless.sh with the new one from 0.5.1
I kept my /etc/conf.d/wireless as-is then restarted my network card and it went down and back up with no problem.
Didn't even have to make any changes to my /etc/conf.d/wireless on either machine.
Do you know what this means though? Why it says my access point can be scanned?
| Code: | Configuring wireless network for eth0
Scanning for access points
eth0 does not support scanning
no access points found
Trying to force preferred incase they are hidden
Connecting to "raksasha" (WEP enabled)...
eth0 connected to "raksasha" in managed mode
on channel 11 (WEP enabled)
Bringing eth0 up via DHCP...
eth0 received address 192.168.1.11 |
Is there a config option I'm missing to enable scanning? This is all I have set (deleted all the comments)
| Code: | # /etc/conf.d/wireless:
# Global wireless config file for net.* rc-scripts
key_raksasha="mywepkey"
preferred_aps=( "raksasha" ) |
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