Re: [gentoo-dev] Linksys Wireless USB

[Luke Graham <luke@trolltech.com>]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:18 am, Adam Voigt wrote:
> Ok, funny thing, when I configure a computer for my use (work computer
> previously
> used by someone else) I always reformat, and go minimalist on what I
> need to make
> the system run smoothly, well as it turns out, at that time, I didn't
> have any USB devices,
> so guess what, I had turned USB support off in the BIOS. After several
> thousand
> resounding "Doh!" in a row, it will now modprobe uhci successfully.
>
> 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

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