Re: [gentoo-dev] Linksys Wireless USB

[Mark Gordon <mark.gt@flash-gordon.me.uk>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:13:09 +1000
Luke Graham <luke@trolltech.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:18 am, Adam Voigt wrote:

<snip>

> > And I get heart-warming little messages like "detected new device"
> > and such on
> > my USB connection. Yay. It says the device was not claimed by any
> > driver or some such
> > thing, but it's a start. Alright, my new problem is, wlanctl-ng
> > fails with the message:
> >
> > wlan: FAILED: /sbin/wlanctl-ng wl0 dot11req_start ssid=
> > bsstype=independent beaconperiod=100 dtimperiod=3 cfpollable=false
> > cfpollreq=false cfpperiod=3 cfpmaxduration=100 probedelay=100
> > dschannel=6 basicrate1=2 basicrate2=4 operationalrate1=2
> > operationalrate2=4 operationalrate3=11 operationalrate4=22
> >
> > wlan: wlanctl-ng: No such device
> > wlan: Failed to enable the device, exitcode= 1 .
> > wlan: grep: /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev: No such file or
> > directory
> >
> > Ok, the device is there for sure in /proc/bus/usb, so it's definetly
> > seeing it now, but I'm not
> > sure what "p80211" has to do with anything, any ideas?
> 
> This is the 802.11b protocol, the layer below your wireless tcp/ip
> connection. At a first guess, I would say check all the necessary
> modules are being loaded, including p80211.o

Are you using the kernel modules or the wlan package? My guess is that
it is the wlan package which you need to rebuild each time you rebuild
the kernel.
-- 
Mark Gordon

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