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I'm running 12.1 on my laptop. The wireless run fine other than a start-up problem.
When booted, I have to run "ifconfig wlan0 up" and then "dhclient wlan0" as root.
What is wrong with my setup that I have to do that?
Here is my rc.inet1.conf:

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

#

# This file contains the configuration settings for network interfaces.

# If USE_DHCP[interface] is set to "yes", this overrides any other settings.

# If you don't have an interface, leave the settings null ("").



# You can configure network interfaces other than eth0,eth1... by setting

# IFNAME[interface] to the interface's name. If IFNAME[interface] is unset

# or empty, it is assumed you're configuring eth<interface>.



# Several other parameters are available, the end of this file contains a

# comprehensive set of examples.



# =============================================================================



# Config information for eth0:

IPADDR[0]=""

NETMASK[0]=""

USE_DHCP[0]="yes"

DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""



# Config information for eth1:

IPADDR[1]=""

NETMASK[1]=""

USE_DHCP[1]=""

DHCP_HOSTNAME[1]=""



# Config information for eth2:

IPADDR[2]=""

NETMASK[2]=""

USE_DHCP[2]=""

DHCP_HOSTNAME[2]=""



# Config information for eth3:

IPADDR[3]=""

NETMASK[3]=""

USE_DHCP[3]=""

DHCP_HOSTNAME[3]=""



# Default gateway IP address:

GATEWAY=""



# Change this to "yes" for debugging output to stdout.  Unfortunately,

# /sbin/hotplug seems to disable stdout so you'll only see debugging output

# when rc.inet1 is called directly.

DEBUG_ETH_UP="no"



## Example config information for wlan0.  Uncomment the lines you need and fill

## in your info.  (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)

IFNAME[4]="wlan0"

IPADDR[4]=""

NETMASK[4]=""

USE_DHCP[4]="yes"

#DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]=""

#DHCP_TIMEOUT[4]=1

#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"

#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"

#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""

WLAN_ESSID[4]=xxxxxxxxx

WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed

#WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"

WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="6"

#WLAN_KEY[4]="s:xxxxx"

WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPA2PSK | set EncrypType=AES | set WPAPSK="x"

WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"

WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="wext"

WLAN_WPAWAIT[4]=30

## Some examples of additional network parameters that you can use.

## Config information for wlan0:

#IFNAME[4]="wlan0"              # Use a different interface name nstead of

                                # the default 'eth4'

#HWADDR[4]="00:01:23:45:67:89"  # Overrule the card's hardware MAC address

#MTU[4]=""                      # The default MTU is 1500, but you might need

                                # 1360 when you use NAT'ed IPSec traffic.

#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"      # If you dont want /etc/resolv.conf overwritten

#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"          # If you don't want ntp.conf overwritten

#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"          # If you don't want the DHCP server to change

                                # your default gateway

#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""              # Request a specific IP address from the DHCP

                                # server

#WLAN_ESSID[4]=DARKSTAR        # Here, you can override _any_ parameter

                                # defined in rc.wireless.conf, by prepending

                                # 'WLAN_' to the parameter's name. Useful for

                                # those with multiple wireless interfaces.

#WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="set AuthMode=WPAPSK | set EncrypType=TKIP | set WPAPSK=thekey"

                                # Some drivers require a private ioctl to be

                                # set through the iwpriv command. If more than

                                # one is required, you can place them in the

                                # IWPRIV parameter (separated with the pipe (|)

                                # character, see the example).

And my wpa_supplicant.conf

Code:

# See /usr/doc/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7/wpa_supplicant.conf.sample

# for many more options that you can use in this file.



# This line enables the use of wpa_cli which is used by rc.wireless

# if possible (to check for successful association)

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

# By default, only root (group 0) may use wpa_cli

ctrl_interface_group=0

eapol_version=1

ap_scan=1

fast_reauth=1



# WPA protected network, supply your own ESSID and WPAPSK here:

network={

  scan_ssid=0

  ssid="nwid"

  proto=WPA WPA2

  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

  pairwise=CCMP TKIP

  group=CCMP TKIP WEP104 WEP40

  psk=nwkey

}



# Plaintext connection (no WPA, no IEEE 802.1X),

# nice for hotel/airport types of WiFi network.

# You'll need a recent version of wireless-tools for this!

#network={

#  ssid="any"

#  key_mgmt=NONE

#  priority=2

#}