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On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:18 am, Adam Voigt wrote: |
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> Ok, funny thing, when I configure a computer for my use (work computer |
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> previously |
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> used by someone else) I always reformat, and go minimalist on what I |
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> need to make |
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> the system run smoothly, well as it turns out, at that time, I didn't |
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> have any USB devices, |
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> so guess what, I had turned USB support off in the BIOS. After several |
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> thousand |
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> resounding "Doh!" in a row, it will now modprobe uhci successfully. |
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> And I get heart-warming little messages like "detected new device" and |
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> such on |
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> my USB connection. Yay. It says the device was not claimed by any driver |
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> or some such |
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> thing, but it's a start. Alright, my new problem is, wlanctl-ng fails |
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> with the message: |
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> wlan: FAILED: /sbin/wlanctl-ng wl0 dot11req_start ssid= |
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> bsstype=independent beaconperiod=100 dtimperiod=3 cfpollable=false |
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> cfpollreq=false cfpperiod=3 cfpmaxduration=100 probedelay=100 |
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> dschannel=6 basicrate1=2 basicrate2=4 operationalrate1=2 |
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> operationalrate2=4 operationalrate3=11 operationalrate4=22 |
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> |
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> wlan: wlanctl-ng: No such device |
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> wlan: Failed to enable the device, exitcode= 1 . |
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> wlan: grep: /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/wlandev: No such file or directory |
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> Ok, the device is there for sure in /proc/bus/usb, so it's definetly |
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> seeing it now, but I'm not |
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> sure what "p80211" has to do with anything, any ideas? |
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This is the 802.11b protocol, the layer below your wireless tcp/ip connection. |
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At a first guess, I would say check all the necessary modules are being |
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loaded, including p80211.o |
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