wireless connection problem

[jeanluca]

Hi All,

I've an Atheros wireless pci card. So I try to connect to my AP, and it gets an ip but in a complete different range. It shoud get an IP something like 192.168.1.101, but instead it gets 170.230.190.1

I get the feeling it doesn't try to connect to my AP at all.

If I type route I get:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
170.230.190.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 ath0
loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
default 170.230.190.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0

To test this with my laptop, which connects perfectly, gives:

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
loopback localhost 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 lo
default 192.168.1.220 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0

Furthemore. if I do iwlist ath0 scanning all the wireless networks (including my own) are shown, which tells me that my card is working fine and that it sees my AP.
Here is the output from iwlist ath0 scanning
Cell 01 Address: 00:12:2A:8D:1F:33
ESSIF:"GenToo"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=7/94 Signal level=-88 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5 Mb/s
......
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100

My /etc/conf.d/net looks like
iface_ath0="dhcp"

and my /etc/conf.d/wireless looks like:
essid_ath0="GenToo"
key_GenToo="this_is_my_key enc open"
preferred_aps=( "GenToo")
mode_ath0="Managed"

this file is more or less the same as the one on my laptop!

And here is a listing of my modules I use for my Atheros card:
ath_pci
ath_rate_onoe
ath_hal
ath_rate_amrr
ath_acl
wlan_ccmp
wlan_tkip
wlan_wep
wlan_xauth
wlan

Any suggestions why it doesn't connect with my AP ?

Cheers
Luca

[jeanluca]

I just did it manually and that worked!!
Here is what I did:

[mikegpitt]

The reason you get the errors when stopping the service is because the service was never started. Basically if you do a /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start you can do a /etc/init.d/net.ath0 stop.

When using the manual way you don't need to shut down the service at shutdown time. I don't think you will see any bad effects.