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 1Gbisa-0005wx-Sd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:21:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9MJH5PW009123; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:17:05 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9MJCoko004956 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:12:50 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so950985ugc for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:12:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MQqyqp4fr2f2n9ix76cqudBSolCnHScjvAkWxIyrKZWA3CY7TU7yw/Tnv8ND7IUvvrKkj18ZVP0GZjxRVgQB8W+Th9ZTPdaYiQr6DOydLBUvuIK3Rmmz9OWV07RZ/2NlVjZPnGsNVHle51srUjYa/oKB02r49cTUJvLItrnNa5o= Received: by 10.78.171.13 with SMTP id t13mr6022463hue; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.128.3 with HTTP; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10610221212x18daf0f1w89d411d42e2955d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:12:49 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling net.ath0 backgrounding In-Reply-To: <200610221335.46790.bss03@volumehost.net> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10610040938k8813062nadf9b4a4af8425cf@mail.gmail.com> <200610041445.34046.bss03@volumehost.net> <49bf44f10610221001h56e43782gb1a31f686582ab68@mail.gmail.com> <200610221335.46790.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: d44ba17e-087d-4e2c-917f-25551b2f58e6 X-Archives-Hash: 62207517c4a8ec0ece8e6a90e54226ee > > I tried the following in /etc/conf.d/net : > > > > modules_ath0=( "!plug" ) > > > > but it still goes into "backgrounding". > > That shouldn't happen. > > Please post the output of: I upgraded to the masked version of baselayout this morning to try and fix this, but the stable version worked exactly the same way as far as not connecting and backgrounding. > equery b /etc/init.d/net.lo sys-apps/baselayout-1.13.0_alpha2-r1 (/etc/init.d/net.lo -> ../../lib64/rcscripts/sh/net.sh) > equery l baselayout sys-apps/baselayout-1.13.0_alpha2-r1 > equery k baselayout 113 out of 150 files good, with a list of "has wrong mtime" > ls -ld /etc/init.d/net.* /etc/init.d/net.ath0 -> net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo /etc/init.d/net.lo -> ../../lib64/rcscripts/sh/net.sh > grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$' /etc/conf.d/net modules="wpa_supplicant" wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" config_ath0=( "192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" ) routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" ) essid_ath0="network2" modules_ath0=( "!plug" ) > grep -Ev '^[[:space:]]*(#.*)?$' /etc/conf.d/net > if /etc/init.d/net.ath0 status | grep -q started; then > /etc/init.d/net.ath0 restart > else > /etc/init.d/net.ath0 start > fi How can I execute this from the command line? > > When ath0 won't connect to > > the wireless network I need to be able to see more about what is > > happening when it's trying to connect. Is that still possible? > > Should be, unless it is something peculiar about wireless (don't use > wireless much) or atheros cards specifically. Please also let me know if you see anything that looks like it might be preventing net.ath0 from connecting. It's been slowly getting less and less reliable, and now it won't connect no matter how many times I ask. net.ath0 on my laptop connects perfectly every time. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list