You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script. Usually you can just copy net.eth0 and add "need pcmcia" to the depend() section.
You'll also need to setup your wlan0 interface in
/etc/conf.d/net...usually something like "iface_wlan0=dhcp" works just
fine.
After that, I *believe* there is a way to get it to start automatically,
though I'm not sure (I always start it manually with
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start on my laptop). I haven't actually had much
time to play around with my wireless configuration yet, so perhaps
someone else can jump in here and add the part I'm missing.
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:36, Spundun Bhatt wrote:
> Hi
> I had this wireless card(Hawking somemodel) working on the same machine
> 4 months back under redhat with linux-wlan-ng. So I tried to configure
> it on the gentoo system.
> I think I have got most of the pieces togather... only some small
> (mostly gentoo specific) detail that I am missing.
>
> Here is the activity on the /var/log/everything/current as I insert the
> card in pcmcia slot.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] socket 0: Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card
> (Prism 2.5)
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] executing: 'modprobe prism2_cs'
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [kernel] init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.16-pre8 Loaded
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [kernel] prism2_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 10, io
> 0x0100-0x013f
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [/etc/hotplug/net.agent] how do I bring interfaces up on
> this distro?
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [/etc/hotplug/net.agent] register event not handled
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] executing: './wlan-ng start wlan0'
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [kernel] ident: nic h/w: id=0x800c 1.0.0
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] + message=dot11req_mibset
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] + mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=false
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] + resultcode=success
> Feb 19 22:26:37 [cardmgr] + ./network: line 28: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0:
> No such file or directory
> Feb 19 22:26:38 [kernel] linkstatus=CONNECTED
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> but ifconfig shows only eth0 and lo interfaces.
> I dont have a /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 file but the README with the package
> doesnt say anything about that file.
> Also when I do /etc/init.d/wlan start .. I get
> --------------------------------------------------
> Starting WLAN Devices:message=dot11req_mibset
> mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=false
> resultcode=success
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Also as I was typing this mail I saw some activity on the
> /var/log/everything/current... might provide some info...
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Feb 19 22:26:38 [kernel] linkstatus=CONNECTED
> Feb 19 22:33:29 [kernel] linkstatus=AP_OUTOFRANGE (unhandled)
> Feb 19 22:33:29 [kernel] linkstatus=AP_INRANGE (unhandled)
> Feb 19 22:33:29 [kernel] linkstatus=DISCONNECTED (unhandled)
> Feb 19 22:33:31 [kernel] linkstatus=CONNECTED
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anybody have any idea about this?
> Thanx a lot
> Spundun
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