Dan McGhee wrote: > This is one of those "somewhere between LFS and BLFS" topics, but since > I'm using the blfs-bootscripts, I thought I'd post here. > > The overall indication is that the bootscripts return FAIL when trying > to bring up the network on boot. And before this I get "SIOCSIFADDR: > device does not exist" or something like that. This error message > generates when /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup runs--regardless of > when it runs.
/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifup is not designed to run with wireless. It really wants a standard wired eth0 type of network interface. Wireless is a difficult topic. You have wlan0. Not all wireless nics have the same device. If you are configuring a laptop, getting it to connect to different access points requires a fair amount of work. It's been months since I turned on my laptop, but I don't recommend running wireless without encryption. This requires wireless-tools and wpa-supplicant. Yout might want to take a look at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/WirelessTools I doubt I'll respond any more to this thread as I don't think I can contribute more than the above. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
