On 11/17/2013 10:33 PM, hans kaper wrote:
> Compared with the discussion about efi-booting, which I follow with interest
> and admiration, I am still in the stone-age. I installed LFS 7.4 on an old
> laptop. It boots fine, but I cannot connect wireless to my network.
> Wired is no problem (although I cannot find the eth0-device anywhere; how
> does this work?).
>
> The laptop uses a Cisco-Linksys wireless usb-adapter. Running udevadm monitor
> and inserting the adapter gives device-information that I put in a rule into
> 70-persistent-netrules with the name wlan0:
>
> SUBSYSTEM="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTR{idVendor}=="13b1",
> ATTR{manufacturer}="Cisco-Linksys" , ATTR{idProduct}=="0020", NAME="wlan0"
>
> I added ifconfig.wlan0 to /etc/sysconfig:
>
> ONBOOT=yes
> IFACE=wlan0
> SERVICE=ipv4-static
> IP=192.168.178.26
> GATEWAY=192.168.178.0
> PREFIX=24
> BROADCAST=192.168.178.255
> WIRELESS_DEV=wlan0
> #SERVICE=dhcpcd
>
> In the kernel I have a line "CONFIG_WIRELESS=y" (but CONFIG_IPWIRELESS is not
> set !?). But on booting I get the errors:
> - cannot find device wlan0
> - interface wlan0 does not exist.
>
> Puppy Linux and Mint-13 on the same laptop have no problem finding wireless
> my Fritz!Box-modem.
>
> Can anyone help me with this problem?
You will also need to install the WPA supplicant package from BLFS.
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