On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:27:29 -0700, John Reynolds <reynold...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:06 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
>>> <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 10, 2010, at 2:20 PM, John Reynolds wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I did a clean install of 0.7.1 on a net4801 (1G CF card). All seems
>>>>> fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have an Atheros CM9 miniPCI card installed in the soekris, and am
>>>>> tring to configure it to work. In the rc.conf I removed the '#' signs
>>>>> from:
>>>>> WIFI_ENABLE="yes"
>>>>> WIFIMODS="ath5k"
>>>>>
>>>>> also,
>>>>> BRIDGE0="eth1 ap0"
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>> AP0="[as is in the rc.conf, with change from br1 to br0]"
>>>>>
>>>>> saved and rebooted, on the console as astlinux is rebooting I get the
>>>>> message "WiFi not enabled"... this is confirmed with "lsmod". I can
>>>>> modprobe ath5k and the CM9 is detected. What am I doing wrong? Thanks
>>>>> in advance for any guidance.
>>>>>
>>>>> John R.
>>>>
>>>> Did you edit /mnt/kd/rc.conf and the directory /mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/ does
>>>> not exist ?
>>>>
>>>> Or, are you using the web interface?
>>>>
>>>> Lonnie
>>>
>>> I did edit rc.conf... and I am using the web interface for most other
>>> items. I didn't see where to do edits for WiFi in the web interface.
>>> (the rc.conf edit was done via the "edit" tab of the web interface,
>>> and not via nano directly... I doubt that matters).
>>>
>>> John R.
>>
>> Using the web interface, you should use:
>>
>> Network tab -> Advanced Configuration: User System Variables: {Edit User
>> Variables}
>>
>> Then add your variable definitions as above. Then reboot.
>>
>> The files used in the case is "/mnt/kd/rc.conf.d/user.conf"
>>
>> Lonnie
>
> Thanks for the help thus far. I've finally made the corrections you
> pointed out, and the box comes up with the module loaded, and seems to
> be right... but I'm not able to make a connection to the box
> wirelessly.
>
> AP0="wlan0:sunflower:11:br0:wpa2:password:hidden,rekey"
>
> above is what I have in user.conf. I understand that this means that
> the SSID is "sunflower", operating on channel 11, bridge 0 (which in
> this situation is "eth1 ap0"), wpa2 is the security type/protocol,
> "password" is the password, and "hidden" means to hide the SSID...
> don't know about "rekey".
>
> Can someone confirm the above, and provide the appropreate option
> alternatives (or where/how to find them)?
>
> I have looked at the "iw" command, and read online some usage
> examples, but none seemed to yield anything useful.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> John R
I use the same string as you, except "hidden", and it works fine for me.
Do you have WIFI_ENABLE="yes", WIFIMODS and the BRIDGE0 in your users.conf?
Does lspci recognize your card?
--
Michael
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