My wireless setup uses a key containing spaces, which causes the following output when running the init script: /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig * Starting wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Trying to force preferred in case they are hidden /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 340: iwconfig_get_essid_var: command not found * wlan0 does not support setting keys * or the parameter "mac_key_" or "key_" is incorrect * Failed to associate with any preferred access points on wlan0 * Couldn't associate with any access points on wlan0 * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 problem #1: iwconfig_get_essid_var is undefined! :) Problem #2: my /etc/conf.d/net file contains a line like: key_MyEssid="s:my wacky key" lines 338-344 of /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig contain: e=$( iwconfig ${iface} key ${key} 2>&1 ) if [[ -n ${e} && ${key} != off ]]; then ##snip Error handling return 1 fi and if I stick in an echo to see the contents of $e it prints: Error : unrecognised wireless request "wacky" I hacked around the problem by adding quotes around ${key}, so that line 338 becomes: e=$( iwconfig ${iface} key "${key}" 2>&1 ) This will probably break for people who use stuff like: key_ESSID1="s:yourkeyhere enc open" ---- /etc/conf.d/wireless - In my setup, MyEssid is hidden config_MyEssid=( "dhcp" ) key_MyEssid="s:my wacky key" dhcpcd_MyEssid="-N -t 10" associate_order_wlan0="forcepreferred" preferred_aps=( "MyEssid" ) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create an essid with spaces, e.g. key_MyEssid="s:my wacky key" 2. Force MyEssid to be chosen 3. start the wireless script Actual Results: * Starting wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Trying to force preferred in case they are hidden /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 340: iwconfig_get_essid_var: command not found * wlan0 does not support setting keys * or the parameter "mac_key_" or "key_" is incorrect * Failed to associate with any preferred access points on wlan0 * Couldn't associate with any access points on wlan0 * Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 Expected Results: results with my hack: * Starting wlan0 * Configuring wireless network for wlan0 * Trying to force preferred in case they are hidden * wlan0 connected to "MyEssid" at 00:90:4B:31:7D:C8 * in managed mode (WEP enabled - restricted) * Bringing up wlan0 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... [ ok ] * wlan0 received address 192.168.1.100 Gentoo Base System version 2.6.8 Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib canna cjk crypt cups dio directfb dvd encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb freewnn gdbm gif glx gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg libwww mad maildir mikmod mmap mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl sharedmem spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib"
I should mention that I am using baselayout-1.11.8
Created attachment 47567 [details, diff] allows whitespace in essid keys and fixes iwconfig_get_essid_var error This patch should fix the reported problems To allow whitespace in keys, you need to configure as below key_ESSID="s:'space test' enc open" The quotes are NOT part the key, but define the key "space test"
Thanks a lot, that patch did the trick for me!
Applied to CVS - will be in baselayout-1.11.9
Fixed by baselayout-1.11.9
