[SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-22 Thread Adam Jimerson
Besides removing, or commenting out, the wlan0 configuration what else is needed to switch eth0 back to being for the wireless instead of wireless? After setting up wpa_supplicant and making the change I get an error about how eth0 No such device, I can post any needed config files to help figure

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-23 Thread arne anka
check udev, i got a rule making eth0 eth1 when eth0 already existed -- dunno what genius created that one. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Thursday 23 April 2009 05:28:31 am arne anka wrote: > check udev, i got a rule making eth0 eth1 when eth0 already existed -- > dunno what genius created that one. > Well it seems I managed to solve the device problem, after spending hours messing with it breaking down sending a message to this

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-23 Thread arne anka
you should be able, to determine the ap associated to by using the iwutils. does it also happen, when you execute the dhclient manually? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-23 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Thursday 23 April 2009 07:29:46 am arne anka wrote: > you should be able, to determine the ap associated to by using the iwutils. > does it also happen, when you execute the dhclient manually? > It seems something is not right in my network interfaces is not right, iwlist scan on both eth0 and

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread Adam Jimerson
Here is what I have for my interfaces configuration /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # Wireless interfaces #iface wlan0 inet dhcp #wireless_mode managed #wireless_essid any iface atml0 inet dhcp # Wire

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread arne anka
/etc/network/interfaces has nothing, repeat, nothing to do with the _naming_ of the interfaces! it kicks in onyl after the interfaces are created already. as i wrote already in my first answer: check the udev rules! here on my desktop debian it is /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules that

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread Adam Jimerson
I don't have a udev rule like that here are the udev rules that I have 50-udev-default.rules 95-udev-late.rules 60-persistent-input.rules local.rules 60-persistent-storage-tape.rules permissions.rules 60-persistent-storage.rules run.rules 80-drivers.rules

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread arne anka
since you started a new thread w/o sufficiently quoting or explaining your issue, i am not sure, if the name you _have_ is wlan0 or ethX (where X != 0). in either case my first attempt would be to grep through /etc/udev/ for the static part (ie wlan or eth): grep -r wlan /etc/udev/ and if s

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread Adam Jimerson
Funny according to gmail it is the same thread, anyways when I did the grep for wlan nothing was returned but eth returned this r...@om-gta02 /etc/udev/rules.d $ grep -r eth /etc/udev/ /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk" /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.r

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread arne anka
> /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", > NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk" well, that's not we are looking for. next step: ist the driver built-in or loaded as module? in case it is a module (which name?) modinf would be interesting. and the, grepping /etc for wlan would be i

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM, arne anka wrote: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="aoe", > > NAME="etherd/%k", GROUP="disk" > > well, that's not we are looking for. > next step: ist the driver built-in or loaded as module? > in case it is a module (which name?) > > modinf

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-24 Thread arne anka
> /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools containing? mine on my desktop does nowhere mention the string "wlan". do a grep through /var and maybe a strings /boot/vmlinuz | grep wlan if it is built-in and no udev rule exists, the name would be hardcoded and can, if at all, only be overridden by

Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question

2009-04-25 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:15:52 am arne anka wrote: > > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools > > containing? It is a bash script, to be nice to the list I posted the contents in pastebin here http://pastebin.com/m6d6284f0 > mine on my desktop does nowhere mention the string "wlan". > do a gr

[SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Jimerson
I am still trying to get my wireless to work on the 4/16 release of SHR-Testing, I can get a scan to work on eth0 every now and then and the rest of the time I get a "device does not support scanning error". No matter if I can scan or not eth0 will not connect to any AP. I have set up the /etc/ne

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-27 Thread matthias
I had the same problems with the same image. But today, when i tried to connect to the network of my university, it surprisingly worked. I did the following: powered up the device with shr-settings and started mofi.py in the terminal. It worked fine until i switched the device off. So, I hope that

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-27 Thread Adam Jimerson
Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, for me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org to see if I have any better luck with it. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:43 PM, matthias wrote: > I had the same problems with the same image. But today, when i

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-27 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/4/28 Adam Jimerson : > Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, for > me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org to see if I > have any better luck with it. i'd recommend knjmokowifi also for managing connections, it works very nicely

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Adam Jimerson wrote: > Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, > for me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org > to see if I have any better luck with it. I have trouble with wifi in SHR testing too. I suspect a kernel prob

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Nicola Mfb
2009/4/28 Helge Hafting : > Adam Jimerson wrote: >> Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, >> for me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org >> to see if I have any better luck with it. > > I have trouble with wifi in SHR test

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: > I have trouble with wifi in SHR testing too. I suspect a kernel problem. > > I usually run wpa_supplicant. Failing that, I connect to WEP networks > using "iwlist" "iwconfig" commands directly. Even these low-level tools > fails most of the t

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Adam Jimerson
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Nicola Mfb wrote: > > I ignored all these issues as before I used mainly BT networking and > USB, they works well with recent kernels, with olders BT stopped to > work after suspend/resume and with USB my laptop was often not able to > enumerate. > I have not tr

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Jan Vlug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Currently, I playing around with Android beta 6 (from Koolu). Wireless does not work there either. Sometimes I can the FreeRunner is able to scan for networks, sometimes not. I was never able to get a connection with an access point. Adam Jimerson

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread George Brooke
On Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:49:44 Helge Hafting wrote: > Adam Jimerson wrote: > > Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, > > for me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org > > to see if I have any better luck with it. > > I ha

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Konstantin
George Brooke schrieb: > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:49:44 Helge Hafting wrote: >> Adam Jimerson wrote: >>> Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, >>> for me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org >>> to see if I have any bet

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Francesco de Virgilio
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin Paulson ha scritto: > 2009/4/28 Adam Jimerson : >> Well it is nice to see that I am not the only person with this problem, for >> me Mofi doesn't even load, I am installing the one from opkg.org to see if I >> have any better luck with it. > > i

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-28 Thread Nicola Mfb
2009/4/27 Adam Jimerson : > I am still trying to get my wireless to work on the 4/16 release of > SHR-Testing, I can get a scan to work on eth0 every now and then and the > rest of the time I get a "device does not support scanning error". No > matter if I can scan or not eth0 will not connect to

Re: [SHR-Testing] Wireless Frustration (was: Re: [SHR-Testing] /etc/network/interfaces edit question)

2009-04-29 Thread Helge Hafting
George Brooke wrote: >> Having low-level stuff like iwconfig fail is what makes me suspect a >> kernel problem. > Try rmmod a6000 (I think thats the correct module) them modprobing it again > as > that some times works for me. I might try. But if it helps, then it is still a kernel bug that nee