sys-apps/openrc (0.11.6 and probably earlier) doesn't play well with wlan without dhcp, i.e. This does work just fine : modules="wpa_supplicant" wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -iwlan0" config_wlan0="dhcp" but when I try to assign fixed IPs (for a small fixed net) like modules="wpa_supplicant" wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext -iwlan0" config_wlan0="192.168.1.3 netmsk 255.255.255.0" routes_wlan0="default via 192.168.1.1" dns_servers_wlan0="192.168.1.1" dns_domain_wlan0="skynet.be" The default route gateway is NOT set. Even if I set it afterwards, e.g. within /etc/local.d/local.start, it still doesn't "supply" net, as xinetd won't start (scheduled for start when net is ready or similar) Only if I supply rc_provide="net" in /etc/rc.conf it becomes usable. emerge --info sys-apps/openrc Portage 2.2.0_alpha143 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.16.0, 3.7.0-rc7 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.0-rc7-x86_64-AMD_C-50_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 01 Dec 2012 05:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 ccache version 3.1.8 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.2, 3.3.0-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.8 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.6 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3, 4.8.0_pre9999::local sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo sunrise local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions /var/lib/hsqldb /var/lib/neatx/home" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=native -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.iso88591" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 3dnowprefetch X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 atm avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gfortran gif gimp gnome gpm gtk gtk2 iconv ipv6 jpeg kde lapack lcms libnotify mad mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl session smp spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4a ssl startup-notification svg tcl tcpd threads tiff tk truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xml xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev wacom sywnaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="ati radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/openrc-0.11.6 was built with the following: USE="(multilib) ncurses pam unicode -debug -newnet (-prefix) (-selinux) -static-libs" Thanks for looking into it, Helmut.
The setting for config_wlan0 should be either: config_wlan0="192.168.1.3/24" #this is the preferred setting or: config_wlan0="192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0" Please set it to one of these two values and re-open if there is still an issue.