Re: Debian startup problem

	I have not been able to get it working without the ifup wlan0 either.  I believe the problem is Debian tries to bring up the device before the module is fully registered and therefore it fails.  I've seen two people on the list say they got it working but neither method has worked when I tried.  Are you running testing by any chance?


You wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I got a debian specific problem with the at76c503 driver.
> It somehow seems that the correct parameters aren't set on bootup. I 
> get this:
> $ iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"okuwlan"  Nickname:"okuwlan"
>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Channel:10  Cell: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate:11Mb/s
>           RTS thr=1536 B   Fragment thr=1536 B
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0
> 
> My /etc/network/interfaces lokks like this:
> ----------
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> auto wlan0
> iface wlan0 inet static
>         address 192.168.0.3
>         network 192.168.0.0
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         gateway 192.168.0.1
>         wireless_mode managed
>         wireless_essid XXXXXXXXXX
>         wireless_channel 10
>         wireless_nick nickname
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>         address 192.168.1.254
>         network 192.168.1.0
>         netmask 255.255.255.0
>         broadcast 192.168.1.255
> ----------
> 
> If I after bootup makes a:
> ifup wlan0
> then everything works. It does seem that something goes wrong during 
> bootup, but I can't find the traces in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
> Any good ideas?
> 
> Regards,