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