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shak

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Registered: 2009-03-16

Posts: 405

Wireless is not automatically detected with rc.conf

Hi guys !

I have the following issue :

I have the wireless drivers  PRO/Wireless 2915ABG , ipw2200 . I 've installed the drivers ipw2200-fw . My wireless interface for some reason is not wlan0 but eth1 .

I've tried the automatic setup
/etc/rc.conf
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
wlan_eth1="eth1 essid linksys" #i have no key protection and the ESSID is linksys
INTERFACES=(eth0 eth1)

but it doesn't work .

When i try the manual setup

# iwconfig eth1 essid "linksys"

dhcpcd eth1

everything works fine . I've tried to add the module ipw2200 in /etc/rc.conf but still doesn't work .

Can someone help me how to have automatically wireless connection during boot ?

Thanks for your help !

Last edited by shak (2010-03-29 15:23:26)

cphase

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From: Newnan. GA

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 116

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Re: Wireless is not automatically detected with rc.conf

Have you tried net-auto-wireless here: /wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg

This is what I use and it works fine.

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n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Wireless is not automatically detected with rc.conf

Or using a Wicd. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd