I'm trying to polish off a gentoo install on a COMPAQ R3000 with
Broadcom 4306 wireless chips...
I can manually setup a solid 54M connection without much effort, but
trying to get it done automatically is troublesome...
I setup a softlevel named "wireless". I deleted the net.eth0 hardware
connection and added net.eth1 in it's place.
My /etc/conf.d/net looks like (wired config deleted):
# wireless
#
dns_domain_eth1=("my.domain")
config_eth1=( "192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255" )
routes_eth1=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
ap_eth1="any"
essid_eth1="any"
essid_eth1="wireless_at_mcbrides"
preferred_aps=( "wireless_at_mcbrides")
mode_eth1="managed"
managed_essid_eth1="wireless_at_mcbrides"
key_wireless_at_mcbrides="[1] ccf4c2305d0d99563a4eaa9597"
#ccf4 c230 5d0d 9956 3a4e aa95 97
#1c20 3ad0 cd0c e131 8c54 7b3e bb
#4c1a 952c 4ee4 4190 3688 d121 d6
#2786 96d8 4ab4 075f d541 9dad 22
rate_wireless_at_mcbrides=("54M")
channel_eth1="11"
dns_servers_eth1=("68.87.75.194" "68.87.64.146")
What fails to happen is... the device is not brought up automatically.
That is, to get this to work, I have to manually "ifconfig eth1 up"
then "/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start". After that, wireless connection is
perfect.
The problem I have is, how to get "ifconfig eth1 up" to run before the
wireless stuff?
Also, are the entries in /etc/conf.d/net order specific? To me it seems
if things are ordered "just right" you either get support for various
commands or you don't. Anyone see anything "killer" wrong in my net
file?
Thanks for your time... and for the flame bots out there... I've
googled my self to death and have been through the gentoo.forums. My
specific setup issues aren't addressed.
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Jerry McBride
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