Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan0

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:20:15 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I recently moved from a wired ethernet interface to wireless via
>  ndiswrapper. I now have wlan0 interface, and configuring it by hand works
>  fine.
> 
> But, on boot, it's not coming up. The initscript gets as far as setting up
>  the essid, but then says that it cannot configure it. That's the only
>  feedback.
> 
> msoulier@anton:~$ cat /etc/conf.d/net
> essid_wlan0="digitaltorque"
> config_wlan0=( "192.168.0.5/24" )
> routes_wlan0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
> msoulier@anton:~$ ls -l /etc/init.d/net.wlan0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov  8  2008 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo
> 
> Do I need more here? I'm not yet running encryption, just a MAC filter, so
>  no other wireless params are needed.

Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it.

Install and run wicd instead. 

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