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amphibious
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: iwconfig sees wireless network, ifconfig wlan0 up doesn't... |
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I'm sure this is an easy fix, it's probably just a newb missing a step or something...
Anyway, iwconfig turns up this result:
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wlan0 IEEE 80211.g ESSID:"mywirelessnetwork"
Mode: Managed Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=16dBm
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=77/100 Signal level=-52 dBm Noise level=-83 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon1
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When I run "ifconfig wlan0 up" I get this when I type ifconfig:
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wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet6 addr: XXXX::XXX:XXXX:XXXX:XXXXXXX Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets: 195 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:-
collisions:0 txqueuelan:1000
RX bytes:736 (736.0 b) TX bytes:1264 (1.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000 Memory:d0202000-d0202fff
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I followed the instructions from http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/staff/palensky/p7010/... which says to do this:
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It has an Intel Pro Wireless 2200bg card on board: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge ipw2200 (make sure that your /usr/src/linux link is set correctly!)
Use /etc/iftab to rename your network interfaces:
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wlan0 driver ipw2200
eth0 driver 8139too
fiwi0 driver eth1394
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Copy /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to net.wlan0 and add the following (ugly but working) clause to it:
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preup() {
#ESSID=MyNet # THIS IS CASE SeNsItIvE!! any == associate to any ESSID
RATE=11 # auto, 11M, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 54
CHAN=11 # 1, 6 or 11
TXPOWER=16 # 16 == 16.5dBm, 18 == 18dBm (default)
MODE=Managed # Managed, Ad-Hoc, Master, Repeater, Secondary, Monitor, Auto
DEBUG=0x00
#KEY="1234567812345678ABCDEFABCD" # WEP128
ALG=open # open == Open System, restricted == Shared Key
IWCONF=`which iwconfig`
IWPRIV=`which iwpriv`
DEV="$1"
EXIST=`$IWCONF $DEV 2>&1 | grep 'No such device'`
if test -n "${EXIST}"; then
echo " device ${DEV} not found..."
return 1
else
$IWCONF $DEV rate $RATE
$IWCONF $DEV channel $CHAN
$IWCONF $DEV txpower $TXPOWER
sleep 1
if test -z "$ESSID"; then
ESSID=any
fi
$IWCONF $DEV essid "$ESSID"
$IWCONF $DEV mode $MODE
if test -n "$KEY"; then
$IWCONF $DEV key $ALG "$KEY"
fi
fi
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I also added a wlan0 line to my /etc/conf.d/net...
What else am I missing? Thanks...
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Hrm... I rebooted and now everything works. I thought that was only supposed to fix problems with Windows systems. 
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