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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config for wifi on AMD_64?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:13:10
Message-Id: 20110126211143.GA3966@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config for wifi on AMD_64? by Zhu Sha Zang
1 Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Here is an attempt to start it
2 manually. I've asterisked "HWaddr. The complaint about
3 "Cannot read /proc/net/wireless" looks ominous.
4
5 [aa1][root][~] lsmod
6 Module Size Used by
7 ath9k 96655 0
8 mac80211 161048 1 ath9k
9 ath9k_common 3536 1 ath9k
10 ath9k_hw 283965 2 ath9k,ath9k_common
11 ath 8604 2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
12 cfg80211 114837 3 ath9k,mac80211,ath
13
14 [aa1][root][~] /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart
15 * Stopping wlan0
16 * Bringing down wlan0
17 * Shutting down wlan0 ... [ ok ]
18 * Starting wlan0
19 * Bringing up wlan0 [ ok ]
20
21 [aa1][root][~] iwconfig wlan0
22 wlan0 no wireless extensions.
23
24 [aa1][root][~] ifconfig wlan0
25 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr **:**:**:**:**:**
26 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
27 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
28 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
29 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
30 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
31
32 [aa1][root][~] iwconfig wlan0 essid any
33 Cannot read /proc/net/wireless
34 Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
35 SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
36 [aa1][root][~]
37
38 --
39 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>

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