That was just it! Thank you so much. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2010 06:12:55 Tony Miller wrote: > > I have added /etc/init.d/net.ra0 (my wireless interface is called ra0 > > instead of wlan0) to the default runlevel. It starts the script at boot, > > but it acts like the device has not been brought up(i.e. with ifconfig > ra0 > > up). For instance the boot log will say: > > > > * Starting ra0 > > * Configuring wireless network for ra0 > > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : > > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down > > Error for wireless request "Set encode" (8B2A) : > > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down > > Error for wireless request "Set essid" (8B1A) : > > SET failed on device ra0; Network is down > > > > And so on and so on for all the different settings, until it finally > gives > > up. > > > > I can do ifconfig ra0 up, iwconfig ra0 essid any, dhcpcd ra0 and connect > to > > the network just fine! Of course I would like it to start at boot > however. > > > > Any ideas? The init script is broken? The actual init script is very > > complicated, and even if it were easy to just add "ifconfig ra0 up" > > somewhere to it, I'm not sure if that's the "best" solution. > > Look at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example to see how you are meant to configure > /etc/conf.d/net to manage your wireless card either using iwconfig, or > using > wpa_supplicant. You probably need something like: > > sleep_scan_ra0="3" #where "3" is three seconds > > HTH. > -- > Regards, > Mick >
