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zoomie66
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 Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:04 am Post subject: wireless-tools installed, but system reports not... (SOLVED) |
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I can't get my wifi card working on a fresh reinstall of Gentoo on my laptop. I had to reinstall because of a hard drive failure, but my backup of the root partion was on a DVD that I can no longer read from.  Its a good thing I kept some of my important configs on a USB stick.
Anyway, after installing the base system, I tried getting my wifi card to work and iwconfig reports the card present and all seems well, but when I tried initializing the card, I get the following output:
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~# /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
*Caching service dependencies ...
*Starting eth1
* For Wireless (802.11) support, emerge net-wireless/wireless-tools
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I already have wireless-tools installed, yet the system is telling me to emerge it. I also tried emerging the version from the testing branch, by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~86" but I still got the same output.
The following is the output I get when I enter the command iwconfig:
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eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/92 Signal level=134/153 Noise level=134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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Here is the relevent contents of my /etc/conf.d/net (with the real essid & passwords changed for obvious reasons):
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modules=( "iwconfig" )
key_myessid="[1] s:mypassword key [1] enc restricted"
config_myessid=( "dhcp" )
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The above config is exactly the same as when the system had worked previously.
Anyone got any ideas?
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dgaffuri
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| Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:24 am Post subject: |
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It doesn't find /sbin/iwconfig. Is it there and is executable?
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zoomie66
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Thank you for replying.
Yes, iwconfig does exist in the /sbin directory and it is executable.
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Ok...the problem had gone away after I did an "emerge -uD world" I guess it was just some older packages in the stage 3 build...updating the system cleared up my inability to bring up my wifi connection
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