Colin wrote: >Finally. I'm sending this email from a working Gentoo system. > >My wireless card (D-Link DWL-120+, ACX100 chipset) had trouble with >acx100, so I unmerged that and gave ndiswrapper a shot. As you can see, >it works, despite not being listed on ndiswrapper's compatibility page. >(I should probably add it.) > >Anyway, the problem here is that when you reboot the system, the >wireless card doesn't find my access point (D-Link DI-614+), not even >with "iwlist wlan0 scan". It's only after bringing down wlan0, bringing >up wlan0, and issuing "iwconfig wlan0 mode managed essid "<my network >ESSID>" channel <my channel> key open s:<my key> nick "<computer's >nickname>" commit" that it might come online. And then I need to run >dhcpcd and then re-add the gateway (it's a different computer, not the >AP). If it still doesn't work, I just mess around until I can ping an >outside host. > >Is there an easier way to make this cheap card work without manual >configuration all the time? net.wlan0 isn't in my /etc/init.d >directory, but I did add wlan0 is in the autoloaded modules list. >Kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. Using the tiacxusb.sys and tiacxusb.inf >Windows drivers. >-- >Colin > > First make a link in /etc/init.d for your wireless device (wlan0), here is what I have ...
rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24246 Apr 14 18:24 net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Apr 14 18:24 net.eth0 -> net.lo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Oct 26 2004 net.wlan0 -> net.eth0 Next add this to the default runlevel rc-update add net.wlan0 default Finally, edit /etc/conf.d/wireless and put your settings in there (read the wireless.example first). Test: /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart HTH Craig -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
