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#1 2008-09-08 02:41:10

Blice
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Registered: 2008-08-05
Posts: 29

Wireless.... Bleh.

Hokay so..

Doing "/etc/rc.d/network start" doesn't work.

Could not associate wlan0 - try increasing WIRELESS_TIMEOUT and check network is WEP or has no security

Right so... I went into the network script to see what it does here. It's checking if "iwgetid wlan0 -ra" returns 00:00:00:00:00:00. Which it does, if the interface hasn't been brought up yet. See, it doesn't even bring up my interface, like "ifconfig wlan0 up" does.

Doing "iwgetid wlan0" pulls up 'Blice', my ESSID. Yet adding the -ra returns the 0's... However if I do "ifconfig wlan0 up", and then do "iwgetid wlan0 -ra", I get 00:13:10:86:A6:53... So I went into the network script and added "ifconfig wlan0 up" right before it sleeps (Sleeps for the wireless timeout).. This returns the bit about "File exists" in the routing table. So it turns out bringing up the interface automatically connects me to my ESSID etc., so the stuff is already in the routing table.

So then... If bringing the interface up with ifconfig automatically connects me, and /etc/rc.d/network doesn't bring up the interface and thus fails to get the iwgetid, what do I do? D:

Thanks..

Blice

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#2 2008-09-08 08:39:18

iphitus
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-10-09
Posts: 4,927

Re: Wireless.... Bleh.

Use netcfg2 instead. The wireless support in rc.d/network is only meant to be primitive. netcfg has more capabilities and greater support.

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#3 2008-09-09 01:20:09

tigrmesh
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From: Florida, US
Registered: 2007-12-11
Posts: 794

Re: Wireless.... Bleh.

I use netcfg2.  It works very well for me.  Netcfg2 was developed by iphitus for Arch, so it's one of the things that makes Arch special  wink  I hope it works as well for you as it does for me.  The wiki page for it is here:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles.

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#4 2008-09-09 16:24:30

whargoul
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From: Odense, Denmark
Registered: 2005-04-04
Posts: 546

Re: Wireless.... Bleh.

Besides netcfg2 (which is very good), if you're more to GUI, you might want to try wicd.


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