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 1MEBnK-0006wM-J9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:35:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEF69E03B8; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from india533.server4you.de (india533.server4you.de [85.25.151.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0FDEE03B3 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.17] (pD95FB64A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.95.182.74]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by india533.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE8A7705B9 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:35:55 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A2EFFEE.6070803@smash-net.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:35:58 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090430) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup References: <000606ca6620ef53cdcd6e935ccf6c4b.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> <4A2E3C57.2060402@smash-net.org> <8d3434f676e4ca6527fde5e0c086be25.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> In-Reply-To: <8d3434f676e4ca6527fde5e0c086be25.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 505da361-bb0b-47bf-aa5f-5c509a4ef963 X-Archives-Hash: 5bdc7aea45d4b4351c9cc6230d842cfc Jason Carson schrieb: > Hey Norman, > > I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it result= ed > in the following errors... > > *Bringing up interface wlan0 > * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 > * Scanning for access points > * no access points found > * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 > > Then because wlan0 wouldn't start I got a bunch of errors like... > > * Error: cannot start named as net.wlan0 would not start > * Error: cannot start sshd as net.wlan0 would not start > * Error: cannot start apache2 as net.wlan0 would not start > etc... > > > > > =20 This is still rc-script output... do not use the rc-script. Do not start = it! Your errors would be, because you have to detach these services from=20 wlan0 and let them use the bridge. Here is some output from my box: mimir ~ # rc-update -s -v | grep net local | default nonetwork =20 net.br0 | default =20 net.eth0 | default =20 net.lo | boot =20 netmount | default =20 mimir ~ # ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:80:48:5e:57:3d=20 inet6 Adresse: fe80::280:48ff:fe5e:573d/64=20 G=FCltigkeitsbereich:Verbindung UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenl=E4nge:1000 RX bytes:7344 (7.1 KiB) TX bytes:14190 (13.8 KiB) mimir ~ # ls /etc/init.d/net.* /etc/init.d/net.br0 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.lo As you can see, there is no rc-script on wlan, but it is initialized an=20 running in AP mode. Regards Norman