Bug 99700 – No PPPoE connection with PCMCIA wlan card and baselayout 1.20.0_pre1-r1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Matteo Settenvini 2005-07-20 10:16:36 UTC]

I've a Prism54 Wlan card (perfectly working), and I use that to connect 
to the Internet through a wifi capable PPPoE modem.

My relevant config:

/etc/conf.d/net
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Just the line `` config_eth1=( "adsl" ) ''

/etc/conf.d/wireless
-------
I set up ESSID and encryption key.


Just inserting the card starts the net.eth1 init script as expected.
With baselayout 1.11.13, everything goes ok: the card comes up (without 
address), it's setted up (the ESSID and WPA), and finally rp-ppoe is 
started and I get connected.
With the new baselayout 1.12.0_pre1-r1, connection _always_ (I tried 
twenty/thirty times even resetting modem between attempts) times out, 
and no packets seems to be sent through the ether.

I mostly used `` /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart '' to test this.

The problem is almost certainly with `` /etc/init.d/net.lo '', because 
reverting changes in that file while downgrading baselayout to 1.11.13 
brings everything back up & operational: you insert the card, five seconds 
later you're online.

What the heck is going on? :-p 
Seems like a temporization issue to me... does the script waits that the ESSID &
WPA etc are ok, before trying to adsl-start the interface? Just a guess, though.

[Comment 1 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2005-07-25 02:11:48 UTC]

Does pre2 solve this?

Also, you may want to have RC_AUTO_INTERFACE="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc as the
current 1.12.0_pre series may not work fully with pppd yet

[Comment 2 Matteo Settenvini 2005-08-01 01:06:53 UTC]

-r3 works for me, albeit pppoe it's slow to start (don't ask me why) compared to
< 1.20.

[Comment 3 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2005-08-01 01:49:34 UTC]

Marking as closed then