daid kahl wrote: >> I've recently rebuilt my laptop, and am having trouble getting the >> wireless to work correctly. My wireless is making an association with >> my AP, but TCP/IP traffic doesn't seem to want to transmit over it; I >> can't even ping my AP. TCP/IP works fine on the ethernet adapter. >> Wireshark (without the ethernet connected) only shows traffic going out >> the wireless card, not in, and another station on my home network is not >> seeing the DHCP broadcasts. My access point can see the MAC address of >> the wireless card in my laptop. I've tried to config the networking >> with DHCP and static IPs, neither worked. >> >> So, the wireless card appears to be working, and TCP/IP appears to be >> working, but not together. Does anyone have any idea what could cause >> this? I've previously had it working, however, I forgot to grab my >> kernel config before I wiped the drive, only the /etc folder and my home >> folder, so there's a good chance that I've done something differently in >> the kernel config. >> > > Use portage to rebuild all the relevant network ebuilds. I've had > similar trouble with NetworkManager and my wireless after rebuilding > lots of the system, and once I rebuilt NetworkManager then everything > was back to normal. So, dhcpcd certainly should be rebuilt, and > whatever other things might be related to the wireless in portage. > > ~daid > > > Well, I've used emerge -C and then emerge again on dhcpcd and iwl3945-ucode. I'm not sure if I did that with wireless-tools, but I'll try that now. Actually, I'll unmerge all three and re-emerge them again.
Are there any others that I'm missing? I can't think of any other packages that would apply; at least, not that I specified. John Moe
