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brent_weaver
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 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: unable to get wireless card to work |
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I am trying to get my Netgear MA401 802.11b card to work on my gentoo laptop. It seems to detect the wirelss network for the light on the card stops blinking and goes solid, which in my experience indicates that it has found the network. I am using WEP encryption and
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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little ~ # iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"protenv" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.417 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:B5:61:AB:C6
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:3132-3241-3335-3046-4331-0000-00 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=92/92 Signal level=57/153 Noise level=110/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
little ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/wireless
key_protenv="s:122A350FC1 enc open"
preferred_aps=( "protenv" )
associate_order_eth1="forcepreferredonly"
sleep_scan_wlan1="1"
sleep_associate_wlan1="25"
little ~ # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start
* Starting eth1
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy
* Configuring wireless network for eth1
* Trying to force preferred in case they are hidden
* Failed to associate with any preferred access points on eth1
* Couldn't find any access points on eth1
* Failed to configure wireless for eth1
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PS - 2006.1 is a HUGE inprevement over past releases!!!! I installed it on my dell laptop first shot!! Good work Gentoo folk!
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Stever
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Location: North Carolina
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: unable to get wireless card to work |
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little ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/wireless
key_protenv="s:122A350FC1 enc open"
preferred_aps=( "protenv" )
associate_order_eth1="forcepreferredonly"
sleep_scan_wlan1="1"
sleep_associate_wlan1="25"
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Should those last two lines be using eth1 instead of wlan1? |
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brent_weaver
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Stever,
Man thanks for the quick response and that is a great observation! I am reading that people are having problems with 3COM 3c59x drivers being compiled into the kernel. It appears that the SIOCSIFFLAGS error indicate an IRQ conflict.
Thoughts?
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brent_weaver
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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update...
I am able to get further than b4 if I do not load a kernel wth 3com drivers in it. I am able to start the service (net.eth0) in this case and am able to do a ifconfig and see the card, it is addressed and has a default route associated with it.
Does the config for this belong in /etc/conf.d/net or /etc/conf.d/wireless or both? It almost seems that they are two seperate services...
HELP!!!
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