rc.wireless does not recognize wireless interface (Slackware 13).
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From: Nellinux on 14 May 2010 14:51 I have a notebook Asus with Slackware 13 whith the wireless network adapter AR9285. With my old laptop I used wpa_supplicant with the normal Slackware 12.2 NIC PV's activation chain (rc.inet1 -> rc.wireless). With the Asus, wpa_supplicant works if I run it from command line with: wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf but the automatic chain does not works. I investigated and found as follows: - rc.inet1 calls rc.wireless with wlan0 interface name (correctly) - /proc/net/wireless does not list the interface wlan0, then: > the function "is_wireless_device" returns 1 rather than 0; > rc.wireless stops. So, wpa_supplicant is not executed and wlan0 is not linked with the access point, though rc.inet1 actives wlan0 IP. I have the unmodified PV's rc.wireless.conf and kernel 2.6.33.1 (from Current) instead of 2.6.29.6, due to bugged driver for Ethernet controller Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132. Any idea to solve it ? Thanks. Nellinux
From: Rinaldi J. Montessi on 14 May 2010 17:05 Nellinux wrote: > I have a notebook Asus with Slackware 13 whith the wireless network > adapter AR9285. > > With my old laptop I used wpa_supplicant with the normal Slackware > 12.2 NIC PV's activation chain (rc.inet1 -> rc.wireless). > > With the Asus, wpa_supplicant works if I run it from command line > with: > > wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > > but the automatic chain does not works. > > I investigated and found as follows: > > - rc.inet1 calls rc.wireless with wlan0 interface name (correctly) > > - /proc/net/wireless does not list the interface wlan0, then: > > the function "is_wireless_device" returns 1 rather than 0; > > rc.wireless stops. > > So, wpa_supplicant is not executed and wlan0 is not linked with the > access point, though rc.inet1 actives wlan0 IP. > > I have the unmodified PV's rc.wireless.conf and kernel 2.6.33.1 (from > Current) instead of 2.6.29.6, due to bugged driver for Ethernet > controller Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132. > > Any idea to solve it ? What happens if you run wicd-curses? -- -Rinaldi- "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
From: Eric Hameleers on 14 May 2010 17:10 Nellinux schreef: > I have a notebook Asus with Slackware 13 whith the wireless network > adapter AR9285. > > With my old laptop I used wpa_supplicant with the normal Slackware > 12.2 NIC PV's activation chain (rc.inet1 -> rc.wireless). > > With the Asus, wpa_supplicant works if I run it from command line > with: > > wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > > but the automatic chain does not works. > > I investigated and found as follows: > > - rc.inet1 calls rc.wireless with wlan0 interface name (correctly) > > - /proc/net/wireless does not list the interface wlan0, then: > > the function "is_wireless_device" returns 1 rather than 0; > > rc.wireless stops. > > So, wpa_supplicant is not executed and wlan0 is not linked with the > access point, though rc.inet1 actives wlan0 IP. > > I have the unmodified PV's rc.wireless.conf and kernel 2.6.33.1 (from > Current) instead of 2.6.29.6, due to bugged driver for Ethernet > controller Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8132. > > Any idea to solve it ? > > Thanks. > > Nellinux Upgrade to Slackware 13.1 when it is released - the rc.wireless script now uses /sys/class/net/wlan0/wireless instead which does work. Eric
From: Martin on 15 May 2010 17:38 Nellinux wrote: > I have a notebook Asus with Slackware 13 whith the wireless network > adapter AR9285. [...] > Any idea to solve it ? > > Thanks. > > Nellinux I got an Asus laptop with the same chip to work only recently. I completely abandoned the use of rc.wireless. If you want the details of my setup just goto http://www.frogge.de/pepper/p50ij/p50ij.html#wlan Martin
From: john on 18 May 2010 15:09
On May 15, 5:38 pm, Martin <n...(a)spam.invalid> wrote: > Nellinux wrote: > > I have a notebook Asus with Slackware 13 whith the wireless network > > adapter AR9285. > [...] > > Any idea to solve it ? > > > Thanks. > > > Nellinux > > I got an Asus laptop with the same chip to work only recently. I completely > abandoned the use of rc.wireless. If you want the details of my setup just > goto > > http://www.frogge.de/pepper/p50ij/p50ij.html#wlan > > Martin I run on Slack 13 on my desktop. On my 64 bit HP laptop I had the wireless connection upon slack 13 but it quit for no good reason one day. After lots of conversation and fiddling I installed Knoppix on the hard disk. That one works. When I start seeing glowing reports on the wireless connection on 13.1 I may switch back. But my inclination is to stay with what works. John Culleton |