Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/net.ra0 is not bringing up the interface?

[Tony Miller <mcfiredrill@gmail.com>]

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Well it was working, then I wanted to add this to my /etc/conf.d/net:

essid_ra0=( "my essid" )

Now the same problem is happening again, any advice?

Nothing else in my /etc/conf.d/net except for this:

sleep_scan_ra0="5"
config_ra0=( "dhcp" )


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Tony Miller <mcfiredrill@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>

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