Op Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:35:07 +0100 schreef Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>:
> 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
>
> The GATEWAY shouldn't have this address with this netmask. The .0 is
> the network address and it will probably confuse the routing table.
You are right, a typo.
I am now looking into the kernel, comparing the Mint-kernel with lfs, whether I
miss something there.
And installing wpa-supplicant of course, but that only makes sense when the
device is found and ready.
Hans.
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