mystified Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I have gentoo on my main box with a netgear router and have Mandriva on my daughter's box and I use a Netgear MA311 wireless nic. I just upgraded from 10.1 to LE and now everytime her computer reboots I have to reset the connection. It detects the card just fine every time when I go to reset the connection and it's worked fine with earlier versions of Mandrake. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 No clue, however for setting her connection each time, you could just put a script in /etc./init.d and then one in /etc/rcS.d (starting AFTER the connection is supposedly setup, but making sure to /etc/init.d/networking restart at the end of the script), and it should startup at each boot. Kind of a workaround, but it should work (around)... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I remember someone with a wireless problem after an upgrade, although he was using ndiswrapper. Not sure if this is the same situation for yourself. He had to reinstall ndiswrapper, albeit a later version that he had recently, and it resolved the prob. Hope that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I don't use ndiswrapper but thanks. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 ...now everytime her computer reboots I have to reset the connection. It detects the card just fine every time when I go to reset the connection<{POST_SNAPBACK}> How do you see it is detected fine? And how do you "reset" the connexion? Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 How do you see it is detected fine? And how do you "reset" the connexion? Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I use the Internet Connection Wizard in MCC and chose wireless and just go thru the steps. The card shows up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 OK, so you go through all the steps each time, and by "reset" you mean you validate the Wizard at the end. Is that so? What is the device for it? (It is probably wlan0) Could you post the corresponding ifcfg file (eg: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0)? BTW, do you have any way to know if it is the whole config that you have to reset each time, or just WPE/WPA? I ask because I was not able myself to enable WPE/WPA automatically on link-up (with hotplug), so I won't be able to help you with that. BTW2 :) Is this WiFi nic always up (at boot): eg. PCI, or is it hotpluggable: eg: USB? Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aomighty Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 To reset the connection, run as root: /etc/init.d/network(or networking) restart. You can then put that into a script, which should work as long as it's run as root, to automate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 OK, so you go through all the steps each time, and by "reset" you mean you validate the Wizard at the end. Is that so? What is the device for it? (It is probably wlan0) Could you post the corresponding ifcfg file (eg: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0)? BTW, do you have any way to know if it is the whole config that you have to reset each time, or just WPE/WPA? I ask because I was not able myself to enable WPE/WPA automatically on link-up (with hotplug), so I won't be able to help you with that. BTW2 :) Is this WiFi nic always up (at boot): eg. PCI, or is it hotpluggable: eg: USB? Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> EVICE=wlan0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes USERCTL=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=any DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient NEEDHOSTNAME=yes PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=no PEERNTPD=no My network card doesn't even show up in MCC unless I reconfigure it. And it's a pci card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 To reset the connection, run as root:/etc/init.d/network(or networking) restart. You can then put that into a script, which should work as long as it's run as root, to automate it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can try that but I explained to Yves the card doesn't even show up as being recognized in MCC unless I manually go thru the whole internet set up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 what module is the card using? Is it being autoloaded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 I don't know if this is relevant, but my own ifcfg-wlan0 has: MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no WIRELESS_ESSID=<my own ESSID> instead of MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes WIRELESS_ESSID=any and I don't have (I'm not sure, but I may have removed it myself): USERCTL=yes Besides, make sure you have this line in /etc/modprobe.conf (assuming you have a 2.6 kernel): alias wlan0 XXX where XXX is the module for your WiFi nic. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 what module is the card using? Is it being autoloaded? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's hosap-pci and it's not loading at boot. Also I get the error message that wlan0 failed when I boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 I don't suppose it works if you add hosap-pci to modprobe.preload by any chance? Just an idea..... at least that's the file on MDK/MDV, not sure if it's another distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted September 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 Besides, make sure you have this line in /etc/modprobe.conf (assuming you have a 2.6 kernel): alias wlan0 XXX where XXX is the module for your WiFi nic. Yves. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It already has this in /etc/modprobe.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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