On Monday 21 September 2009 09:25:24 am Tom K wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this problem. For months and months, ever since I installed Arch, my Atheros wifi (through ath0) has always just worked right out of the box.
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The mywpa.conf file is:
CONNECTION="wireless" INTERFACE=wlan0 SCAN="yes" SECURITY="wpa" ESSID="skyline" KEY="notmyrealkey" IP="dhcp" TIMEOUT=20
That profile would never have worked with ath0, as it specifies wlan0 as the interface.
Now I boot my box and I get nothing but the "lo" interface brought up. What gives?
Check dmesg and/or your logs for clues.
What in the world could have changed in the past week or so that is presenting my wireless from being brought up at boot?
As already mentioned - until you tell us what you have done to your system in the past week or so, you might as well be asking how to build one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion
T.
Sorry guys, I'll get the detail, But yes this profile DOES work as wlan0 is simply an alias for ath0 under the madwifi driver: [13:48 alchemy:/home/david] # ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:9E:7C:F6:E7 inet addr:192.168.6.102 Bcast:192.168.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:378638 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:133854 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:429332196 (409.4 Mb) TX bytes:14984393 (14.2 Mb) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:38:AF:36:B8 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:252 Base address:0xa000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:57057 (55.7 Kb) TX bytes:57057 (55.7 Kb) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-9E-7C-F6- E7-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:747577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:32135 TX packets:155592 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:280 RX bytes:303248952 (289.2 Mb) TX bytes:21529160 (20.5 Mb) Interrupt:19 I'll get the pacman logs and post them. But I suspect the problem is related to the other post about wifi problems lately. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com