Re: Debian startup problem

Saturday 13 March 2004 23:38 skrev CE:
> 	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?

I think your are right. Debian tries to bring up the interface before 
the module is fully registered. Btw. I am running unstable.

>
> 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,
>
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