On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 14:11:30 -0400
Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with
> Broadcom 4306 wireless chips...
>
> I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but
> trying to get it done automatically is troublesome...
>
> I setup a softlevel named "wireless". I deleted the net.eth0 hardware
> connection and added net.eth1 in it's place.
>
> My /etc/conf.d/net looks like (wired config deleted):
>
> # wireless
> #
> dns_domain_eth1=("my.domain")
> config_eth1=( "192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.168.0.255" ) routes_eth1=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
> ap_eth1="any"
> essid_eth1="any"
> essid_eth1="wireless_at_mcbrides"
> preferred_aps=( "wireless_at_mcbrides")
> mode_eth1="managed"
> managed_essid_eth1="wireless_at_mcbrides"
> key_wireless_at_mcbrides="[1] ccf4c2305d0d99563a4eaa9597"
>
> #ccf4 c230 5d0d 9956 3a4e aa95 97
> #1c20 3ad0 cd0c e131 8c54 7b3e bb
> #4c1a 952c 4ee4 4190 3688 d121 d6
> #2786 96d8 4ab4 075f d541 9dad 22
>
> rate_wireless_at_mcbrides=("54M")
> channel_eth1="11"
> dns_servers_eth1=("68.87.75.194" "68.87.64.146")
>
>
> What fails to happen is... the device is not brought up automatically.
> That is, to get this to work, I have to manually "ifconfig eth1 up"
> then "/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start". After that, wireless connection is
> perfect.
>
> The problem I have is, how to get "ifconfig eth1 up" to run before the
> wireless stuff?
>
> Also, are the entries in /etc/conf.d/net order specific? To me it
> seems if things are ordered "just right" you either get support for
> various commands or you don't. Anyone see anything "killer" wrong in
> my net file?
>
> Thanks for your time... and for the flame bots out there... I've
> googled my self to death and have been through the gentoo.forums. My
> specific setup issues aren't addressed.
>
> ---
>
>
> Jerry McBride
>
Sorry to reply to my own cry for help...
I fixed it. After determining that net.lo is pretty much brain dead and
not being willing to fix it... I wrote my own init script. It's even
more brain dead, but works 100%.
The net.lo script and supporting code simply does not work as needed
for this laptop.
Cheers all...
#!/sbin/runscript
#
depend() {
before cupsd
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting wireless"
modprobe bcm43xx
ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
iwconfig eth1 ap 00:02:6e:49:19:2f
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig eth1 channel 11
iwconfig eth1 key [1] ccf4c2305d0d99563a4eaa9597
iwconfig eth1 rate 54M
iwconfig eth1 essid wireless_at_mcbrides
ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gateway 192.168.0.1 eth1
echo "domain my.domain" > /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 68.87.75.194" >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 68.87.64.146" >> /etc/resolv.conf
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping wireless"
ifconfig eth1 down
rmmod bcm43xx
}
--
Cheers...
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