Danny Luker wrote: >Hi all, > The other night I did an emerge sync; emerge world -vu and got a >new and improved version of baselayout. I screwed up and let >etc-update clobber all my config files (stupid I know ;() ... anyway, >I've recovered from it except I can't get wireless working. It all >was so simple before. Even doing it manually was simple but I can't >get it to connect (associate) with my access points. Before all this >I could do it manually by: > ># modprobe ath_pci // using the madwifi drivers on my Thinkpad T40 ># ifconfig ath0 192.168.1.53 netmask 255.255.255.0 up ># route add default gw 192.168.1.1 ath0 > > >
Well, nothing in the new baselayout should have prevented your ability to bring things up manually. The only thing I can think of that you might be missing is an "iwconfig ath0 essid 'any'" command. For bringing things up automatically, the following lines in /etc/conf.d/net should work: modules_ath0=( "ifconfig" "iwconfig" ) config_ath0=( "192.168.1.53 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) routes_ath0=( "default via 192.168.1.1" ) If you need encryption, you will also need to configure /etc/conf.d/wireless appropriately. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/net.example and wireless.example. If this doesn't help, please post your /etc/conf.d/net and wireless files. And also exactly what happens when you try to bring up the interface manually. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list