Danny Luker wrote:
>Hi all,
> The other night I did an emerge sync; emerge world -vu and got a
>new and improved version of baselayout. I screwed up and let
>etc-update clobber all my config files (stupid I know ;() ... anyway,
>I've recovered from it except I can't get wireless working. It all
>was so simple before. Even doing it manually was simple but I can't
>get it to connect (associate) with my access points. Before all this
>I could do it manually by:
>
># modprobe ath_pci // using the madwifi drivers on my Thinkpad T40
># ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.53 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
># route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0
>
>
>
Well, nothing in the new baselayout should have prevented your ability
to bring things up manually. The only thing I can think of that you
might be missing is an "iwconfig ath0 essid 'any'" command.
For bringing things up automatically, the following lines in
/etc/conf.d/net should work:
modules_ath0=( "ifconfig" "iwconfig" )
config_ath0=( "192.168.1.53 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_ath0=(
"default via 192.168.1.1"
)
If you need encryption, you will also need to configure
/etc/conf.d/wireless appropriately. Take a look at
/etc/conf.d/net.example and wireless.example.
If this doesn't help, please post your /etc/conf.d/net and wireless
files. And also exactly what happens when you try to bring up the
interface manually.
-Richard
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