On Saturday 25 November 2006 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I've been upgrading a couple of machines. Things are going fairly > well but there have been a few problems. This one I need to work out > first. > > 1) My son's machine was rebuilt with gcc-4 following the upgrade > guide. Everything went well and it finished up yesterday afternoon. > Since I use ndiswrapper on that machine I rebuilt the kernel with > gcc-4 and I rebooted with the new kernel and new drivers. Everything > worked great including wireless, MythTV frontend, Aqualung, etc. > > 2) This morning I cold booted and everything worked. I did an eix-sync > and had a couple of things to build so I did that. One of them was new > a udev package. Coldplug was removed from the machine. > > 3) I *think* I warm booted at this point and things still worked but > I'm not positive on that. However I then booted the machine into > Windows to check that it was still there for games, and then warm > booted back into Gentoo. At this point wireless was completely gone. I > tried cold booting but that didn't help so I don't think running > Windows made any real difference. > > a) /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stays it's stopped. If I try to start wlan0 > I'm told it doesn't exist. > > b) I have the link from net.wlan0 to net.lo. > > c) I rebuilt ndiswrapper and it loads. ndiswrapper -l tells me that > the driver is loaded and the device is present. > > d) All the basic stuff like route doesn't see the interface, as > expected I guess. > > Where might I look for what's gone wrong? > > As an aside, the Gentoo kernels remove support for stack size > changes so ndiswrapper complains about the kernel when it's emerged. > Is there a patch to get an 8K stack size option back again? Why does > anyone remove this in the first place instead of just setting it to a > sane default? > > Sorry I Cannot send any info from the box but it's off the net.
In case you haven't, remerge/modprobe the module for the wifi card. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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