On 05/12/2014 10:31 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi all. I got Espeakup to finally function, but I have a problem now
> with my Realtech 8188 WiFi adapter, Rev01, according to ifconfig. I
> know it shows up as wlp7s0 on an ifconfig, normally. But for what ever
> reason, it isn't showing up. I have, in my /etc/conf.d/net the line:
> wlp7s0="DHCP". When I run ifconfig wlp7s0 up, I get an error about how
> the device is not able to be found. The driver shows up as a module in
> the kernel.
>
I use wpa_supplicant to manage my wireless connections.
Here's what I have in my /etc/conf.d/net:
# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools
modules="wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_wlp2s0="-Dnl80211"
And the output of lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k
Are you setting up wireless after doing a fresh install, or did you have
it working before and then it just stopped working for you?
