I'm using wireless-tools-28_pre10 (they are stable on x86) and there is a problem in /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig in function iwconfig_setup_specific(): When the ESSID is set up and the mode is changed afterwords (from Managed into Ad-Hoc), then the ESSID goes into off/any state. Here is the listing of the first two lines of iwconfig when I added the command echo "`iwconfig eth1`" into /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig before and after the mode change: before mode change: eth1 unassociated ESSID:"FRQ" Nickname:"FRQ" Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 after mode change: eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Nickname:"FRQ" Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel=0 Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00 After this the "dhcp" is tried even I have a line config_FRQ in my config file. The command "/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart" looks like this: * Starting eth1 * Configuring wireless network for eth1 * no access points found * Couldn't find any access points on eth1 * eth1 connected to "" * in ad-hoc mode on channel 3 (WEP disabled) * Configuration not set for eth1 - assuming dhcp * Bringing up eth1 * dhcp * Running dhcpcd ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the fallback ad-hoc network settings in /etc/conf.d/net.ethX 2. Try to start the interface via /etc/init.d/net.ethX Actual Results: The interface (ESSID) is not configured properly and the IP is not set up. Expected Results: The mode should be changed before any other parameters are set, I think. Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-suspend2-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-suspend2-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://gentoo.kems.net http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/gentoo/" LANG="cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2" LC_ALL="cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2" LINGUAS="cs en en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/linux/portage-tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi adns alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 ccache cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cpudetection crypt css cups curl dbus dga dhcp dpms dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat extensions fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk2 hal iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib iproute2 ipv6 java javascript jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kqemu lame lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lirc lzo lzw mad maildir matroska mhash mikmod mjpeg mmx mng motif mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer musepack mysql ncurses network nls no-old-linux nptl nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openexr opengl oscar oss pam pam_chroot pam_console pam_timestamp pccts pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php png pnp posix postgres ppds python qt quicktime quotas readline real recode rtc samba scanner sdl sharedmem slang sox spell sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl stroke svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib zvbi video_cards_radeon linguas_cs linguas_en linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Created attachment 74805 [details] My wireless interface configuration file /etc/conf.d/net.eth1
Created attachment 74807 [details, diff] Proposed patch to do mode changing before any other settings
The patch is working correctly. I didn't investigate if the problem is also somewhere else in /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/*. I'm also not completely sure if the behaviour of iwconfig tool is correct, but the logic - change mode plus invalidate the ESSID - looks ok to me.
It's probably a driver issue as my cards work fine with wireless-tools-28_pre10 on x86 and amd64 with the unpatched code. Your patch has no effect, but I can understand the logic. I've applied your patch to our svn repo - thanks! Will be in baselayout-1.12.0_pre12
Great, thanks :-)
Fixed in baselayout-1.12.0_pre12
