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Bug 107273

Summary: iwconfig tool is not found when starting wireless wlan0 interface
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Nick <gentuu>
Component: [OLD] baselayoutAssignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Nick 2005-09-26 05:08:01 UTC
# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 restart

first - /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig script adviced me to install
wireless-tools  (but I had one), and when I changed (see below..) it - I had this:

 * Starting wlan0
 *   Loading networking modules for wlan0
 *     modules: iwconfig essidnet iptunnel ifconfig dhclient apipa
 *       iwconfig provides wireless
 *       ifconfig provides interface
 *       dhclient provides dhcp
/lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 12: /usr/sbin/iwconfig: No such file
or directory
/lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 12: /usr/sbin/iwconfig: No such file
or directory
 *   Wireless extensions not found for wlan0
/lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig: line 12: /usr/sbin/iwconfig: No such file
or directory
 *   Bringing up wlan0
 *     10.0.0.1/24                                                             
          [ ok ]


These versions I have installed 

baselayout-1.11.12-r4
wireless-tools-28_pre9


all the problem is in:

    /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/iwconfig

file - IT HAS HARDCODED PATH TO iwconfig utility! (/usr/sbin/iwconfig), but I
have /sbin/iwconfig - so that iwconfig module should be fixed somehow to
correctly detect iwconfig place.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2005-09-26 05:58:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98926 ***