Can't activate wireless card from command line

arctidog · 02-01-2006, 02:25 PM

Looks like hostap isn't getting loaded. I would think hotplug should take care of it, puzzling.

dnaEnhanced · 02-01-2006, 02:25 PM

edit:

oops.. didn't mean to post here.

jdrietz · 02-01-2006, 08:52 PM

I'm going to mess around with some things and see what happens. I'll report back here tomorrow....

Thanks everyone for your help!

-J

jdrietz · 02-01-2006, 09:44 PM

So, I tried to comment out everything I could remember I had touched in rc.inet1.conf and rc.wireless.conf. I rebooted, and this didn't seem to work. So I shut down the computer and decided to come back to it later. When I rebooted, wlan0 was showing up again. I then edited the rc.inet1.conf (after backing it up this time, of course!). I made the edit suggested above (setting the mode to "managed"). This did the trick!

Thanks again for your help.

jdrietz · 02-01-2006, 10:42 PM

Ok, spoke too soon. Here is the issue now:

I am still running into the scenario where wifi0 and wlan0 don't show up when I run iwconfig after a reboot (shutdown -r now). However, if I do a complete shutdown (shutdown -h now) and then turn on the computer, no problems. Thoughts?

Crobat · 02-01-2006, 11:28 PM

I put everything I got my wireless card to work with in rc.local, so everytime the computer boots, the commands are executed automatically.

Although there's probably a better way to do things.

arctidog · 02-01-2006, 11:57 PM

Can you modprobe the hostap driver? If it's already there, does rmmoding then modprobeing give you the interface? It may be that the driver is not shutting down/bringing up the hardware properly, or that the hardware has a quirk related to not being power cycled. First, though, try to make sure that the wireless card is being brought down when you perform a restart. It may be that runlevel 0 does something that runlevel 6 doesn't. Anyway, what do I know? This thread has really shown my knack for speculation

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