The baselayout package >=1.12.0 breaks the wireless init script with an rt2500 wireless card. I've found the problem was that line 433: iwconfig "{iface}" essid any in the file /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig was commented out, uncommenting got rid of the "Cannot find access point" message when starting net.ra0 My config.d/wireless file: preferred_aps=( "2WIRE827" "thetribe" ) associate_order="preferredonly" # 2WIRE827 (WEP) key_2WIRE827="********** enc open" # thetribe (TKIP) iwpriv_thetribe=( "set AuthMode=WPAPSK" "set EncrypType=TKIP" "set WPAPSK=**********" ) emerge --info: Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-hardened-r3-nvidia i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-hardened-r3-nvidia i686 Unknow CPU Type Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 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: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en_GB en fr de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl alsa apache2 apm asf audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal hardened idn imagemagick imlib java jpeg kde lcms libg++ libwww logitech-mouse lua mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pam_console pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en_GB linguas_en linguas_fr linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 81582 [details, diff] Fixes issue That line was commented out to fix another bug - heh. This patch should fix your issue. Please test and report back - you'll need to re-comment your change.
Fixed in pre17
