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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXspx-0002MT-78 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:10:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9C58McN031018; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:08:22 GMT Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9C56EDj003090 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:06:15 GMT Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id n1so218811nzf for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:06:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=lHddafMMRSsYjmBP64LXD5FmWq2se8hbaP/9VDGpEkOiczCmyxGpekHdk2z3S5TFCqWJKG7y8jHuBQ8E9myi6vp+n+ffikgf2gEzMg9K5tuTdjoVJS0dXnK/W9cwn+4JVVMca7veST6LYKzeEHywKW9xHAGEI31qX3HI2jZR+bM= Received: by 10.65.43.17 with SMTP id v17mr2064359qbj; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gmail.com ( [67.160.57.222]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id f12sm2175424qba.2006.10.11.22.06.11; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:06:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gmail.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) kenji.malist@gmail.com; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:06:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:06:02 -0700 From: Neil Hodges To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2100 problems - ieee80211? Message-ID: <20061012050602.GA23880@hsd1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <200610112100.18183.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> <200610112140.00814.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> <9b1675090610112145sf9dd627o16a64d40d4d0a652@mail.gmail.com> <200610112153.26411.lordsauronthegreat@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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200610112153.26411.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: bf7029c6-097a-4173-8d15-0a183f05037a X-Archives-Hash: 02356692e724b8b0694c89e05e81a168 Hello, You would run the command: # ln -s /etc/init.d/net.{lo,ethX} However, "ethX" would refer to the device name of your network card, which you should be able to find out via a search on Google. - Neil On 21:53 Wed 11 Oct , Lord Sauron wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:45, Trenton Adams wrote: > > You create net.eth0, or whatever, by linking /etc/init.d/net.ethX to > > /etc/init.d/net.lo The driver will create the actual kernel device > > name of eth0, ath0, or whatever, and then your link will make it > > work. > > Makes sense. How do I do that? > > I'm a little dense here: how would I do that? Is there some special > command? Do I copy the thing and rename it? Do I do the funky Gentoo > dance and burn a sacrificial hard drive to the gods of the IBM > DeathStar hard drives and hope it'll work in a week? > > Just kidding about that last one, but I'm know where you're going, just > not how to get there ; ) > > Thanks for your help, by the way - wouldn't have gotten past the funky > Gentoo dance w/o you : ) > > -- > http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list