On 11/22/2013 06:27 AM, hans kaper wrote: > 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. Hans, what is in 'dmesg' about your network cards? From that you can tell whether you have a kernel, driver or set-up problem. Since it's usb and if your kernel is modular, it is important that the usb modules load in the right order. The book covers this in the kernel chapter.
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