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Eliatamby

Member

Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Madwifi-ng and wireless network profile problems

I've never really had any trouble with network profiles until I did a complete reinstall for Gimmick.  I'm running madwifi-ng 0.90 built from source and wpa_supplicant.  I can connect from the command line, but my network profile won't work no matter what.  It doesn't work at boot up, nor does it work when I call /etc/rc.d/network restart.  I don't get any errors, just a fail.

Here is my netprofile below.  Can anyone see what's wrong here?

#
# Network Profile
#

DESCRIPTION="Default Network Profile"

# Network Settings
INTERFACE=ath0
HOSTNAME=myhost

# Interface Settings (use IFOPTS="dhcp" for DHCP)
#IFOPTS="192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
#GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
IFOPTS="dhcp"


# Wireless Settings (optional)
ESSID=my_net
#KEY=
IWOPTS="mode managed essid $ESSID channel 6"

#WIFI_INTERFACE=wlan0   # use this if you have a special wireless interface
                        # that is linked to the real $INTERFACE

#WIFI_WAIT=5            # seconds to wait for the wireless card to
                        # associate before bringing the interface up

USEWPA="yes"           # start wpa_supplicant with the profile
WPAOPTS="-D madwifi"             # use "" for normal operation or specify additional
                        # options (eg, "-D ipw")
                        # see /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf for configuration

Menzonius

Member

From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Registered: 2006-01-07

Posts: 8

Re: Madwifi-ng and wireless network profile problems

I also use madwifi, wpa_supplicant and network profiles (installed with Pacman though, and I am using WPAOPTS="-D wext" in my profile instead of "-D madwifi"). But in my wireless profile, I have commented out the ESSID and IWOPTS variables and wpa_supplicant works fine without them (for me anyway). Maybe you could try starting the profile directly with "netcfg restart <profile_name>"? Hope that helps.