Bug 102929

Summary:	Wireless and baselayout-1.12.0_pre5
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Alessandro Orru' <fmuld3r>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Roy Marples (RETIRED) <uberlord>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alessandro Orru' 2005-08-17 17:30:42 UTC

Today I emerged the new baselayout, replacing the 1.11.12_r4 version.

I think I found a bug of this new version with wireless.. here is the problem:

I had my system configured to automagically find my essid and to assign an ip
address through dhcp. With the new baselayout I just can't do this anymore,
because when I assign an essid and then I set an ip to wlan0 interface (also
manually), iwconfig reports that I don't have an essid anymore.

So:

1- I load ndiswrapper module
2- Doing iwlist wlan0 scan finds my AP
3- Doing iwconfig wlan0 reports "ESSID: CasadialeNET"
4- I manually assign an ip with "ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.155" (same with dhcp)
5- Now if I type iwconfig wlan0, I have "ESSID: off/any" instead of my correct
ESSID.
6- If I do "iwlist wlan0 scan" still finds my AP
7- If I do "iwconfig wlan0 essid CasadialeNET" doesn't do anything (essid stays
off/any)

Switching back to baselayout 1.11.12_r4 solved the problem.

Baselayout: 1.12.0_pre5
Ndiswrapper: 1.2
Wireless-tools: 28_pre8-r1

Comment 1 Alessandro Orru' 2005-08-17 17:33:49 UTC

/etc/conf.d/wireless:

essid_eth0="any"
mode_eth0="auto"
preferred_aps=( "CasadialeNET" )
associate_order="forcepreferred"

/etc/conf.d/net:

config_wlan0=( "dhcp" )
dhcpcd_wlan0="-t 10"

Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-08-22 04:13:22 UTC

Remove the mode_eth0 and essid_eth0 lines as they stop the last two lines from
working.