Hi, Did all that sensible stuff I suggested below. It worked. This response is from my wireless NIC.
Thanks to the Gentoo developers for making such a logically consistent system! Cheers, Mark On 4/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm attempting to get wireless up and running. First time on > Gentoo. I have used ndiswrapper on FC2 which this machine used to run > so I have ESSIDs, mac addresses and keys that are known good. > > I've emerge the wireless-tools stuff and have an edited > /etc/conf.d/wireless file with my values in it. ndiswrapper is > modprobed and ready to go. Now I want to start net.wlan0 but I don't > have a file in /etc/init.d and nothing shows up in rc-update. > > What am I missing here? Am I supposed to make some edits to > /etc/conf.d/net? That might make sense but I'm not sure what to do. If > so where do I get /etc/init.d/net.wlan0? Copy net.eth0 and rename? > > My goal here is to be able to say: > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop > /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start > > and be able to switch between interfaces. > > Thanks in advance. I've been searching around for info but just > haven't found the right thing. > > Cheers, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
