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From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:35:58
Message-Id: 4A2EFFEE.6070803@smash-net.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup by Jason Carson
1 Jason Carson schrieb:
2 > Hey Norman,
3 >
4 > I tried changing my /etc/conf.d/net to what you suggested but it resulted
5 > in the following errors...
6 >
7 > *Bringing up interface wlan0
8 > * Configuring wireless network for wlan0
9 > * Scanning for access points
10 > * no access points found
11 > * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0
12 >
13 > Then because wlan0 wouldn't start I got a bunch of errors like...
14 >
15 > * Error: cannot start named as net.wlan0 would not start
16 > * Error: cannot start sshd as net.wlan0 would not start
17 > * Error: cannot start apache2 as net.wlan0 would not start
18 > etc...
19 >
20 >
21 >
22 >
23 >
24 This is still rc-script output... do not use the rc-script. Do not start it!
25 Your errors would be, because you have to detach these services from
26 wlan0 and let them use the bridge.
27
28 Here is some output from my box:
29
30 mimir ~ # rc-update -s -v | grep net
31 local | default nonetwork
32 net.br0 | default
33 net.eth0 | default
34 net.lo | boot
35 netmount | default
36 mimir ~ # ifconfig wlan0
37 wlan0 Protokoll:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:80:48:5e:57:3d
38 inet6 Adresse: fe80::280:48ff:fe5e:573d/64
39 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung
40 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
41 RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
42 TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
43 Kollisionen:0 Sendewarteschlangenlänge:1000
44 RX bytes:7344 (7.1 KiB) TX bytes:14190 (13.8 KiB)
45
46 mimir ~ # ls /etc/init.d/net.*
47 /etc/init.d/net.br0 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.lo
48
49 As you can see, there is no rc-script on wlan, but it is initialized an
50 running in AP mode.
51
52 Regards
53 Norman

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Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup Jason Carson <jason@×××××××××××.ca>