Borked Wireless

[kyotodude]

Since installing Gentoo, my D-Link wireless card has been working fine. But then, after either an update or an emerge -e, it stopped connecting. I've tried messing with my /etc/conf.d/net, and here it is:

# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis"
config_ath0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_ath0="nodns nontp nonis"
modules=("iwconfig")
essid_ath0="any"
config_ESSID=( "dhcp" )
mode_ath0="managed"
associate_order="any"

I really need my wireless to work, its my only network. Any suggestions please! Thanks!

[GenKreton]

I think the primary concern would be, can you connect manually using iwlist, iwconfig, and dhcpcd? That would tell us if the problem is with the card or with the networking scripts.

[kyotodude]

Iwconfig shows my wireless card, but both it and dhcpcd time out when trying to connect, with the message that the connection could not be setup. I sould also add that I'm not using any encryption.

[GenKreton]

When connecting with iwconfig and you tell it to associate with your wireless access point doing something like:

[ahubu]

Also make sure your wireless device is still called ath0, I noticed some drivers changing it to wlan0 in a update. You should be able to see this in iwconfig. If it has changed you should change the /etc/conf.d/net parameters accordingly.

Also make sure the driver is loaded correctly (it should show up in dmesg when loading the module).

Oh, and when you have an external driver emerged, loaded as a kernel module, you should re-emerge that module with every kernel update (it couldn't hurt to re-emerge it anyway to be sure it's still installed). Or look it up with an 'lsmod' command.
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