On July 30, 2005 02:33 pm, John Wilson wrote:
> On July 30, 2005 02:01 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > John Wilson wrote:
> > > Hi Mikkel,
> > >
> > > ifcfg-wlan0 is pointing to the MAC address of the hardware so that
> > > isn't it. I did remove a line that had no variable set and I'll see if
> > > that does any good.
> > >
> > > I'm keeping on beating my head against that brick wall. :-)
> > >
> > > ttfn
> > >
> > > John
> >
> > John,
> > You have lost me here. What do you mean when you say ifcfg-wlan0 is
> > pointing to the MAC address? If you are using "HWADDR=<MAC address>",
> > you still need the correct "DEVICE=<something>" statment.
> >
> > The "DEVICE=<something>" statment in the ifcfg-wlan0 file is what
> > determins what device is being set. If it is something like
> > "DEVICE=eth0" instead of "DEVICE=wlan0", then you will get the type of
> > errors you have reported.
> >
> > Here is one that works:
> > DEVICE=wlan0
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > ONBOOT=no
> > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
> > WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
> > WIRELESS_ESSID="AP_ROUTER"
> > WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=1234-5678-6804-3A0D-BDCB-487E-00
> > WIRELESS_IWCONFIG="key restricted"
> > NEEDHOSTNAME=no
> >
> > It is for a loptop cardbus card. For a built-in card, you would probably
> > want to change ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes.
> >
> > You may want to read the section in
> > /usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.61.1/sysconfig.txt about ifcfg-<device>
> > files.
> >
> > Mikkel
>
> Hi,
>
> What I'm saying is that it seems to be reading the mac address of my
> device. And yes, it's a built in card.
>
> I'll make the changes to the wlan config you suggest and see what happens.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ttfn
>
> John
Changed it and got the same error on restart that leads me to believe that
Aron may be onto something.
Bringing up interface wlan0:
Determining IP information for wlan0...External network device eth0 is not
ready. Aborting..
failed.
[FAILED]
Now the internal, or what I'm assuming internal eth0 is on about is up and
running so what the heck is this message on about?
Given the kind of card it is should I bring ath0 back to life and map it to
wlan0?
Thanks
ttfn
John
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