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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 16:15:11 -0800
From: "James Ausmus" <james.ausmus@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up
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On 2/1/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 08:46, James Ausmus wrote:
> > On 1/29/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Monday 29 January 2007 23:06, James Ausmus wrote:
>
> > > When you say configure it on the card do you mean in the /etc/conf.d/net
> > > file?
> >
> > Nope - I mean:
> >
> > iwconfig ra0 essid <ESSID>
> > iwconfig ra0 mode <MODE - probably managed>
> > iwconfig ra0 channel <channel>
> > iwconfig ra0 ap <AP MAC address>
> > iwconfig ra0 enc <encryption key/off> <open/restricted>
>
> OK, I've tried these a number of times in the past but the adaptor won't play
> ball. Even basic commands like 'iwconfig wlan0 up' will not work.
>
Hmm - you might have to do:
ifconfig wlan0 up
prior to any iwconfig command.
When you just tpye:
iwconfig
What do you get?
> > Try different sets of the above commands, if you do all of them with
> > the proper params, but still no connectivity after a
> > /etc/init.d/net.ra0 restart, then do:
> >
> > iwconfig --help
> >
> > And see what other commands might look interesting.
> >
> > You also might modprobe the rt2500usb module with debug=1 and watch
> > your dmesg output - it might give you some insight as to *why* things
> > are failing. :)
>
> # modprobe -v rt2500usb debug=1
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r6/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko debug=1
> FATAL: Error inserting rt2500usb
> (/lib/modules/2.6.18-gentoo-r6/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko): Unknown symbol in
> module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
>
> dmesg shows;
>
> rt2500usb: Unknown parameter `debug
>
> That's because I did not compile the driver with the debug USE flag. I did
> try to do this once and a debugfs error came up.
>
> > > These two worked fine for my USB adaptor:
> > >
> > > Sat Dec 9 08:54:56 2006 >>> net-wireless/rt2x00-9999
> > > Wed Dec 27 17:34:33 2006 >>> net-wireless/rt2x00-9999
> >
> > Thanks! I'll give those a try when I get a chance. :)
>
> OK, you'll need to follow the steps in here:
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Skipping_fetch_for_CVS_packages
>
> and with regards to setting the date, use the -D option, like so: -D
> 2006-12-09
>
Thanks much!
-James
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