From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FBiLP-0003fP-RK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:59:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1M0w0Qm022308; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:58:00 GMT Received: from holstein.creativecow.net (holstein.creativecow.net [64.71.189.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1M0rq6j003527 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 00:53:53 GMT Received: from [10.0.1.6] (66-214-206-154.dhcp.mrba.ca.charter.com [66.214.206.154]) by holstein.creativecow.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BDB2B9691 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:53:51 -0800 (PST) From: Eric Bliss Organization: CreativeCow.Net To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:53:18 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <49bf44f10602162032o4c9d5af5i19c0709c287ef8@mail.gmail.com> <1140430917.7700.12.camel@d5150.subnet0.com> <49bf44f10602211635i72f9663fjbe763083c1b6aa23@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10602211635i72f9663fjbe763083c1b6aa23@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602211653.18454.eric@creativecow.net> X-Archives-Salt: 117f8ac0-d4e0-4cbd-adc0-c23a3ee92ba7 X-Archives-Hash: af61eac087a4e646bd2ef556c6b7a64c On Tuesday 21 February 2006 16:35, Grant wrote: > and I've been working with wireless-tools ever since. I'm using: > > ifconfig ath0 up > iwconfig ath0 essid Myessid > iwconfig ath0 key s:Mykey > pump -i ath0 > I don't know if it matters, but try running the iwconfig lines BEFORE the ifconfig up. That's the order I've got them in in my script to connect to an Airport, and it could be that the iwconfig commands aren't actually changing the config while the interface is "up". Just a guess, based on a similar script that works for me. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list