That was just it! Thank you so much.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 12 March 2010 06:12:55 Tony Miller wrote:
> > I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0
> > instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the script at boot,
> >  but it acts like the device has not been brought up(i.e. with ifconfig
> ra0
> >  up). For instance the boot log will say:
> >
> > * Starting ra0
> > *  Configuring wireless network for ra0
> > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> >     SET failed on device ra0; Network is down
> > Error for wireless request "Set encode" (8B2A) :
> >     SET failed on device ra0; Network is down
> > Error for wireless request "Set essid" (8B1A) :
> >     SET failed on device ra0; Network is down
> >
> > And so on and so on for all the different settings, until it finally
> gives
> > up.
> >
> > I can do ifconfig ra0 up, iwconfig ra0 essid any, dhcpcd ra0 and connect
> to
> > the network just fine! Of course I would like it to start at boot
> however.
> >
> > Any ideas? The init script is broken? The actual init script is very
> > complicated, and even if it were easy to just add "ifconfig ra0 up"
> > somewhere to it, I'm not sure if that's the "best" solution.
>
> Look at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to see how you are meant to configure
> /etc/conf.d/net to manage your wireless card either using iwconfig, or
> using
> wpa_supplicant.  You probably need something like:
>
> sleep_scan_ra0="3" #where "3" is three seconds
>
> HTH.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>