Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:24 pm, Jason Cooper wrote: > > Ed Jabbour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > > > It had been a long while, so I ran an emerge -uDvp world. Now, my > > > wireless doesn't work. I tried manual: > > > > > > iwconfig wlan0 essid Arachne key s:xxxxxxxx open > > > > > > I get: Error for wireless request "Set encode" (8B2A : > > > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument. > > > > > > iwconfig: > > > IEEE 80211g ESSID:off/any Nickname: "Arachne" > > > > I've had great success with: > > > > # iwconfig ath0 essid "MyESSIDName" mode managed channel 6 enc \ > > 0011-2233-4455-6677-8899-AABB-CC > > [snip] > > > It looks like the bug is in gentoo's initscripts... Give the command > > above a try (with your info, of course) and let us know what happens. > > I ran what you suggested, and iwconfig now returns: > > IEEE 80211g ESSID: "Arachne" Nickname: "Arachne" > Mode: Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: <router mac address> > Bit Rate . . . etc > > which is a heck of a lot more than I was getting before - at least the ap is > recognized. Where I go from here, though, I have no clue.
Oops, forgot that part. Assuming your AP is running a dhcp server, all you should have to do now is: # dhcpcd ath0 Mine takes 10 to 30 seconds before it returns the prompt to me. Not sure why... Then I ping google.com for good measure. hth, Cooper. -- [email protected] mailing list
