From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBR55-00023L-Sw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:18:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B861E021D; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14F12E021D for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:18:53 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.41,290,1241391600"; d="scan'208";a="103672093" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 02 Jun 2009 11:18:52 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48431137CE6 for ; Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:18:50 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <0DAD514F-8834-42AE-91D1-7FDB808F101E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200906020631.32133.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ath5k and wpa_supplicant Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 11:18:45 +0100 References: <358eca8f0906010746j134d4cd3wf1248021cd6ac687@mail.gmail.com> <4A240CB8.1000008@gmail.com> <20090601235542.2aa63c56@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <200906020631.32133.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.935.3) X-Archives-Salt: f3351399-5611-47c0-a293-f1274cda5c5d X-Archives-Hash: e97d5549664a2dc85aed5533b8dd8b43 On 2 Jun 2009, at 06:31, Mick wrote: >> ... >> ath5k calls the device wlan0. > > Yes it does, but this is what I am getting when I try to run wpa_cli > in a > terminal: > ===================================================== > $ wpa_cli > wpa_cli v0.6.4 > Copyright (c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen and contributors > > This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it > under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. > > Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the > BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details. > > > Selected interface 'ath0' > Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying > ... > Why is it picking up 'ath0' when there are no references to ath0 in > my /etc/conf.d/net? Both wpa_cli and wpa_gui seem to work fine when I > define -iwlan1 on the CLI. Did you use ath0 in the past? Maybe this name has been stored in udev- rules. I would suggest `grep -R ath0 /etc` I'm pretty sure that ath0 was used when I first used madwifi 2 or 3 years ago, but had changed to wlan0 the next time I tried it. Stroller.