Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. (I should probably add it.)
Anyway, the problem here is that when you reboot the system, the wireless card doesn't find my access point (D-Link DI-614+), not even with "iwlist wlan0 scan". It's only after bringing down wlan0, bringing up wlan0, and issuing "iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid "<my network ESSID>" channel <my channel> key open s:<my key> nick "<computer's nickname>" commit" that it might come online. And then I need to run dhcpcd and then re-add the gateway (it's a different computer, not the AP). If it still doesn't work, I just mess around until I can ping an outside host. Is there an easier way to make this cheap card work without manual configuration all the time? net.wlan0 isn't in my /etc/init.d directory, but I did add wlan0 is in the autoloaded modules list. Kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. Using the tiacxusb.sys and tiacxusb.inf Windows drivers. -- Colin -- [email protected] mailing list
