My wifi nterface is active but I cannot browse the Internet

[augustin_meaulnes]

Hi,

With the help of assistants on the Harware forum I could manage to set my kernel in order to have it working with my wifi Cardbus extension ( Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Adapter).

I followed the Gentoo documentation to write this file: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

[d2_racing]

Did you try with WICD or networkmanager ?

[augustin_meaulnes]

I cannot emerge netwokmanager (errors)
I emerged wicd but I don't understand how to use it.

Is it something additional to wpa_supplicant or does it replace it?

[augustin_meaulnes]

After boot a dialog bow appears:

[d2_racing]

Hi, can you post this :

[augustin_meaulnes]

Here you are.

[patrix_neo]

Hard to tell if you have been given any ip-address or not.

You should have some info in /var/run/dhcpc/wlan0.conf or such.
Look if you have any dns servers in there.

What does route say?
Do you have a gw?

What does iwconfig and ifconfig tells you?

Can you ping google.com ?

[TJNII]

Can you ping 192.168.1.1?

[augustin_meaulnes]

I made some progress

Changed /etc/cond.d/net commenting the last 2 lines

[patrix_neo]

For adding a group to a existing user, don't use adduser. usermod is the appropriate one.

Like this:

[augustin_meaulnes]

Ok. But contrarily to Ubuntu, it seems that the netdev group doesn't exist.

[patrix_neo]

True that. I had similar problems loading my net.eth0 with the current /etc/conf.d/net config...I think you need to structure it accordingly...My best tip.

[edit] If you try to refer to another distro - you cannot expect the same result. Linux is about choice. Furthermore, I actually made you learn something on the way. Take that with you.

[augustin_meaulnes]

I can no longer hear anything. I feel alone.

May be should I restate the situation

1-At boot time

[patrix_neo]

I can see your /etc/conf.d/net says:

[augustin_meaulnes]

Hi patrix_neo
I feel less alone now.Thank you.
You are right. My wireless interface is wlan0. But I also have a wired one which is called eth0.

To answer your proposal , i would say:
1- At the beginning I had in /etc/conf.d/net both config_eth0= ( "dhcp" ) and config_wlan0= ( "dhcp" ).
I was told by somebody on the forum to remove config_wlan0 as Iitis already managed by wpa_supplicant., so I removed it.
2- Moreover everywhere I read about it is said that it is useless to write it as if not decalred it is assumed dhcp by default.
3- Whatever it is I did what you suggested , replacing eth0 with wlan0 but there is no chage at all in the behavior.

Whatever it is, I wonder what service is missing when during boot the "something?" is waiting for carrier and why it doesn't miss when later on after boot I use my wifi.sh?

Looking forward to reading you.

[patrix_neo]

Well...I did when using wifi for a few years back...but mine was called conf_wpa_supplicant_wlan0=( "dhcp" ) That might have changed by now. Things do.

And look here : http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless/Configuration (if you have not allready).

When looking at your boot-up code, I see it is timing out. Try set a timeout in your /etc/conf.d/net.

Like this (maybe):

[augustin_meaulnes]

Hi,

I have tried the timeout with a value of 120.
There is no change
whenever I use the commands in my wifi.sh script after boot things are instantaneous.
There is also the fact that running iwconfig gives "no wireless extension" for wlan0

[patrix_neo]

There's more to the timeout problems than setting the timeout value to 120. There is a section about it on the gentoo wiki page. Take a look if there is something new for you there.

I know I had no success with iwconfig with my wifi card. My wifi card was called ra0 and not wlan0, because of proprietary binaries from ralink, I think.