autoconfiguring wlan0 on boot

mgillespie · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 170

have my wlan0 wireless lan interface working, but I have to manually set essid and the wep key using iwconfig on each boot.

I have seen forum threads and the wiki entries, but they all seem to be out of date, and refer to /etc/conf.d/wireless.example and /etc/conf.d/wireless neither of which I have on my system (just built using stable packages).

Have tried setting the following in /etc/conf.d/net

key_MYLAN="s:mywepkey enc open"
preferred_aps=( "MYLAN" )

but this does not seem to work either.

The lack of upto date information sometimes really hacks me off...

UberLord · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:23 am Post subject:

The problem is that you need baselayout-1.11.x (currently 1.11.9-r1) to get wireless support - and that package is marked unstable.

mgillespie · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 170

that baselayout also have some dependencies on bash, readline, and sysintv which are all masked on my AMD64 system

Am trying to force install of them now, see if it hoses anything...

UberLord · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:57 am Post subject:

They are masked on ALL systems as unstable.

However, one of my machines is an AMD64 and I can attest they work just dandy

mgillespie · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2003 Posts: 170

Thanks, unmasked all those packages, and all compiled fine on my AMD64 system, wlan0 is now working a champ.

Extremenly happy bunny, as I now have a single wifi card that does Linux both 32bit and 64bit, and XP 64bit and 32bit...