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

[Mick]

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