On Friday 12 March 2010 06:12:55 Tony Miller wrote: > I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0 > instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the script at boot, > but it acts like the device has not been brought up(i.e. with ifconfig ra0 > up). For instance the boot log will say: > > * Starting ra0 > * Configuring wireless network for ra0 > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down > Error for wireless request "Set encode" (8B2A) : > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down > Error for wireless request "Set essid" (8B1A) : > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down > > And so on and so on for all the different settings, until it finally gives > up. > > I can do ifconfig ra0 up, iwconfig ra0 essid any, dhcpcd ra0 and connect to > the network just fine! Of course I would like it to start at boot however. > > Any ideas? The init script is broken? The actual init script is very > complicated, and even if it were easy to just add "ifconfig ra0 up" > somewhere to it, I'm not sure if that's the "best" solution.
Look at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to see how you are meant to configure /etc/conf.d/net to manage your wireless card either using iwconfig, or using wpa_supplicant. You probably need something like: sleep_scan_ra0="3" #where "3" is three seconds HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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