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 http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.