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On Wednesday 18 November 2009 01:20:15 Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I recently moved from a wired ethernet interface to wireless via |
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> ndiswrapper. I now have wlan0 interface, and configuring it by hand works |
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> fine. |
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> But, on boot, it's not coming up. The initscript gets as far as setting up |
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> the essid, but then says that it cannot configure it. That's the only |
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> feedback. |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ cat /etc/conf.d/net |
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> essid_wlan0="digitaltorque" |
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> config_wlan0=( "192.168.0.5/24" ) |
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> routes_wlan0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" ) |
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> msoulier@anton:~$ ls -l /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 |
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> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov 8 2008 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo |
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> Do I need more here? I'm not yet running encryption, just a MAC filter, so |
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> no other wireless params are needed. |
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Forget all about conf.d/net, and disable the init scripts for it. |
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Install and run wicd instead. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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