Issues with wireless internet through /etc/rc.conf [SOLVED]

mongoose088 · 2009-08-13 19:08:31

Hello all, the title states my problem pretty clearly. I can connect to the internet manually with these 2 commands:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "name" key 123
sudo dhcpcd wlan0

Where of course, name is the name of my network and my key is a WEP key.

The error I receieve on start up is that the computer couldn't "associate wlan0" and that I should increase my timeout and ensure the connection is WEP. I don't know how to increase the timeout, but I doubt that's what's wrong with it. Here's the relavant portion of /etc/rc.conf

#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid name key 1234"
INTERFACES=(wlan0 eth0)

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DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa dbus hal)

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Is there some error with my syntax? I followed the wikipage on setting up wireless, but I still seem to get the same issue. I wonder if configuring /etc/conf.d/wireless is more effective, (I have no idea how to set it up though) or through some other approaches?

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by mongoose088 (2009-08-13 21:14:23)

Misfit138 · 2009-08-13 19:28:28

Sounds like your dhcpcd is just not playing nice. I would try using wicd instead of the network script and rc.conf.
Instructions for wicd are in the wiki.
Alternatively, you may try netcfg, or substitute dhclient for dhcpcd.

mongoose088 · 2009-08-13 21:13:42

Thanks for the suggestions Misfit. After playing around with wicd and networkmanager, I was only able to get netcfg to work correctly. Too bad it adds a few seconds to the bootup time, though.

I'll mark this one as solved. Thanks again!

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#1 2009-08-13 19:08:31

Issues with wireless internet through /etc/rc.conf [SOLVED]

#2 2009-08-13 19:28:28

Re: Issues with wireless internet through /etc/rc.conf [SOLVED]

#3 2009-08-13 21:13:42

Re: Issues with wireless internet through /etc/rc.conf [SOLVED]

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