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argh

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2008-02-04

Posts: 4

Wireless only working if $bssid check in /etc/rc.d/network is skipped

hi

when i set up my wireless a few month ago, it didnt work first. with "/etc/rc.d/network restart" i got the error

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

wep confings are good, a higher timeout didnt change anything. somehow (dont remeber ) i found that if i comment out some lines in /etc/rc.d/network, it worked. what i commented out is:

#       if [[ "$bssid" = "00:00:00:00:00:00" ]]; then
#               printhl "Could not associate $1 - try increasing WIRELESS_TIMEOUT and check network is WEP or has no security"
#               return 1
#       fi

My problem now is that from time to time (very rarly), this file gets overwritten when updating the system. i have to get back and comment it out again.

Anyone has an idea why i have to comment it out, and how i can fix this for real?
OR
how can i keep the file from getting owerwritten?

my wireless is an onboard Realtek chip (on asus m2n32-sli delux), rtl8187 driver