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Hi, |
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Why would wireless no longer work after rebuilding the kernel to |
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add USB OHCI support only? |
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The title more or less says it. My network is a bunch of LinkSys |
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access points and a LinkSys wireless router. I use WEP and broadcast |
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my ESSID, for now. |
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I emerged wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant (which I am not using at |
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this time) and ndiswrapper. Using ndiswrapper I installed the Windows |
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driver and ndiswrapper installed and working: |
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christmas ~ # ndiswrapper -l |
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Installed ndis drivers: |
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net8180 driver present, hardware present |
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christmas ~ # |
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christmas ~ # lsmod | grep ndis |
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ndiswrapper 162288 0 |
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christmas ~ # |
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I added ndiswrapper to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: |
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christmas ~ # cat /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 |
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# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots. |
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# |
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# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels. |
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# |
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# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system |
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# starts into this file, one per line. Comments begin with # and |
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# are ignored. Read man modules.autoload for additional details. |
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# For example: |
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# 3c59x |
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sis900 |
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ndiswrapper |
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christmas ~ # |
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I configured the following files yesterday and got wireless working: |
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christmas ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/wireless |
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# /etc/conf.d/wireless: |
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# Global wireless config file for net.* rc-scripts |
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############################################################################## |
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# SETTINGS |
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############################################################################## |
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essid_wlan0="LadySmithBliss" |
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preferred_aps=( "LadySmithBliss" ) |
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channel_wlan0="6" |
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key_LadySmithBliss="AAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDDD-EEEE-FFFF-GG enc restricted" |
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christmas ~ # |
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christmas ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net |
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# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.* |
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# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration, |
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# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration |
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# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!). |
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config_eth0=( "192.168.1.58/24" ) |
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routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) |
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config_wlan0=( "192.168.1.59/24" ) |
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routes_wlan0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) |
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christmas ~ # |
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I created the link for wlan0: |
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christmas ~ # ls -la /etc/init.d/net.* |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 4 22:33 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24324 Jul 4 22:33 /etc/init.d/net.lo |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Jul 8 02:09 /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 -> net.lo |
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christmas ~ # |
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At this point I could start and use the network by hand so I used |
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rc-update to add net.wlan0 to default. Everything was working fine. I |
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powered the machine completely down and booted cold. The wireless |
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network can up and ran fine. |
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I thought everything was great until we tried to configure my son's |
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printer and found the kernel didn't have the right USB support so I |
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rebuilt the kernel. After rebuilding the kernel I can no longer get |
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wireless to run: |
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christmas ~ # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start |
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* Starting wlan0 |
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* Configuring wireless network for wlan0 |
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* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 |
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[ !! ] |
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christmas ~ # |
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I tried re-emerging ndiswrapper but that didn't help. |
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I'm really confused at this point. Can someone suggest some things |
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for me to look at? |
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Thanks very much, |
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Mark |
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