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vthokiestm
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:28 am Post subject: Upgrade of Baselayout from 1.11.8 to 1.11.9 hoses wlan. |
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I've been looking through the forums for a dupe, but don't see anything so I'll post.
I just upgraded to baselayout 1.11.9 (from 1.11. and it has broken my wireless connection.
This setup has been working with my AP for a few months, so its not the router.
I'm using ndiswrapper with a Netgear G PCMCIA card (Prism54).
Here's my /etc/conf.d/wireless...
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essid_wlan0="hokies"
mode_wlan0="managed"
channel_wlan0="1"
key_hokies="open xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
preferred_aps("hokies")
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and /etc/conf.d/net
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config_wlan0=("dhcp")
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When I try to use a static IP and gateway, the IP is accepted, but the NIC can't even ping the gateway.
dhcpcd fails on wlan0.
Anybody see a way to work around this without starting from scratch?
Thanks,
Brian |
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UberLord
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Joined: 18 Sep 2003
Posts: 6835
Location: Blighty
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Upgrade of Baselayout from 1.11.8 to 1.11.9 hoses wlan. |
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| vthokiestm wrote: |
Here's my /etc/conf.d/wireless...
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essid_wlan0="hokies"
mode_wlan0="managed"
channel_wlan0="1"
key_hokies="open xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
preferred_aps("hokies")
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essid_wlan0 hardcodes the essid hokies to wlan0, rendering preferred_aps pointless.
managed mode renders setting the channel pointless too.
I wouldn't put open at the start of the key line
So here's a new config
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key_hokies="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx enc open"
preferred_aps("hokies")
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Simpler!
If that fails to work, set RC_VERBOSE=yes in /etc/conf.d/rc and post the output of the net script running - thanks |
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vthokiestm
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Joined: 21 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:40 pm Post subject: Fixed!!! |
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Got it working!
I couldn't get your suggestion to work. I had to have /etc/conf.d/wireless as follows...
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mode_wlan0="managed"
key_hokies="open xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
preferred_aps("hokies")
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I also added this to /etc/conf.d/net...
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config_hokies( "dhcp")
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All is well.
I can't believe that these scripts are so finicky about the exact format of the commands in the configuration files. |
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UberLord
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:47 pm Post subject: Re: Fixed!!! |
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Yeah, the scripts are picky - but that's bash for you 
I missed out an equals sign - my bad. |
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