wireless woes

[jacque808]

Ok guys, gotta a good one for you and maybe its a simple fix but I'm a linux n00b. I finally got my wireless card install and is recognized by the system. However when I try to bring it up using dhcpcd wlan0 the wireless card tries to find the AP and after a while it dies (shutsoff) when i start up the system says wlan0 connected to "". I take it the blank space is the problem? Please tell me what files you need to see on my system and I will port them.

Thanks Mcuh

Rick

[overkll]

It'd be easier to help you if you posted more information about your setup.
Card, chipset, driver, "iwconfig", "emerge --info" and "lspci | grep Network" would be a good start.

[jacque808]

ok as for my setup, gentoo is a stage 1 on a newer HP laptop (pavillion ze4700). The card that I am having troubles with is a TwinMOS (realtek) pcmcia card. As for the driver, I did an emerge rtl8180. Drivers seem to work just fine.

Here is my system info
emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2"
CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/ http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://gentoo.mirrored.ca/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cs.lewisu.edu/gentoo/ http://prometheus.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/public/gentoo/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo http://mirror.phy.olemiss.edu/mirror/gentoo http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY


LSPCI | GREP Network doesn't show jack but

ifconfig -a shows
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:7F:70:D1:DC
inet addr:10.187.19.9 Bcast:10.187.19.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7028 errors:133 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:195
TX packets:491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1073081 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:62717 (61.2 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:300 (300.0 b) TX bytes:300 (300.0 b)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:9D:00:65:EA
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:96 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:951 (951.0 b) TX bytes:4120 (4.0 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Memory:dc854000-dc854100

ideas? please!

[overkll]