On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Sanjeet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> recently...when i executed /sbin/ipw3945d-start the device node got created 
> and i could find a directory eth0 for the device in 
> /sys/class/net....(ipw3945 is the driver)....but why doesn't it startup at 
> boot......and i still cannot connect to any ap using dhclient

A couple things:

1. Try to use the iwlwifi drivers if you can. The ipw3945 driver has
been dropped, partly because of the need for a userspace daemon which
is not used in iwl3945. They will work just by loading the driver and
having the firmware available.

http://intellinuxwireless.org/

2. If you are using the ipw3945 drivers, you need some sort of udev
RUN rule so that the /sbin/ipw3945d-start script is run when the
kernel uevent is created. Google should be able to help you there.

> there's no modprobe.d modprobe.conf module.conf in /etc directory as 
> suggested by other mailing lists.....though i created modprobe.conf with the 
> contents 'alias eth0 ipw3945'

If you need to have the network interfaces named differently, see the
"Configuring the network script" section of the book:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.2/chapter07/network.html

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