From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22318 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Dec 2002 01:16:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 22309 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2002 01:16:44 -0000 From: Luke Graham Organization: Trolltech Australia To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:13:09 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <1039529935.1129.5.camel@beowulf.cryptocomm.com> In-Reply-To: <1039529935.1129.5.camel@beowulf.cryptocomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200212111113.09858.luke@trolltech.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Linksys Wireless USB X-Archives-Salt: 2d794879-93b6-418f-8a3f-16d29dd9a04d X-Archives-Hash: f2a0787a6857dc2e849f2baf835f522f 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 -- luke@trolltech.com Fax: +47 21604801 Trolltech AS, Waldemar Thranes gt. 98, N-0175 Oslo, Norway -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list