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 1QzTqS-0005n4-Qh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:31:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EAD321C07A; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCC321C047 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 13:30:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so2749316wwf.10 for ; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:30:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0ooi1AU+iQgWH+xQ1utXBApw4ZAXoJgMe4G7YS1pNXU=; b=fdj3nveEybimVXRC+4F7Fa2fvEWEG7fbD67+wP2ol/crmElLLgRrHXkp9s1BMsXsnY jM51PhB0deTiJavAsU2W8WQt6UjKg2YUqnLxNt1iFtVrd8/pYj7tI7wMKlQ2fpWl7RAR tyj2z+GAJKXYcNAVJAGFvjUNf9N4VEJb8EhYQ= 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 Received: by 10.216.134.155 with SMTP id s27mr130567wei.98.1314970233808; Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.169.85 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 06:30:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1314935534.69025.YahooMailNeo@web39324.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <1314935534.69025.YahooMailNeo@web39324.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:30:33 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c23e8e679b0ea5ac0d254b90775488a9 On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, BRM wrote: > I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with= , but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network al= ready; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet c= able to my wireless bridge to get network access. > > /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 starts, but goes immediately inactive. From what I = can find on-line, this seems to have been something common after moving to = Base Layout 2/OpenRC; however, I couldn't find anything that specified what= the actual solution was - I think most ended up doing a complete reinstall= of their wicd/wpa-supplicant software - either way details were lacking.= =C2=A0 I've successfully had wpa-supplicant working in the past, and as a r= esult of all of this I've tried to get it up through the other method too (= iwconfig?), but no success. (I think I have managed to get it to scan some,= but not sufficiently and certainly no connections.) Did you followed the instructions at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml specifically the network section? > Anyone see this issue and know what the solution is? I'd like to at least= get my 802.11g access back - the current setup is a bit of a pain and very= limiting. Since you use a laptop, I will assume you have either KDE, GNOME or Xfce. If that's the case, why don't you try NetworkManager or connman, and use the GUI thingy to do the work for you? I haven't manually configured a wireless network in years, and I have been the last three months traveling with my laptop literally all over the world, connecting to all kinds of access points. NetworkMnager just works, but I also hear great comments about connman. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico