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hika
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 Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 10:39 am Post subject: Activating WLAN |
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I have a small problem with my Asus laptop. I have everything installed and working, but my wlan card won't activate. I have gotten most of my function keys working, but not that one. I found a mentioning of the ifup command, but don't know where to find it. Does anybody have a suggestion?
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hika
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| Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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For some weird reason loading the driver as a module solves the problem. Is this normal or what?
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jamapii
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| hika wrote: | | Is this normal or what? |
Possibly. I guess the driver finds its hardware, this triggers udev, this starts net.wlan0. So you need to load the module at boot, I think these days /etc/conf.d/modules is the place for this. |
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hika
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Later I found it was a different thing. I had installed wpa_supplicant and had not configured anything, so it blocked the activation by lack of configuration. Weird. It need some configuration before you can configure! I had in between filled in my local net. It should load clean for the first run, so you can cofigure!
But thanks.
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| Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe on installing placing a clean configfile would solve this for it complained of not finding it. |
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