A few different problems [SOLVED]

[brandon_r87]

Hi,

First of all, my wireless (ipw2200) is working fine, but each boot, it will randomly choose either eth0 or eth1. Is there a way to make it pick one and always load as that? It's a pain changing it in my conf files everytime.

Second, I'm at college so that means I can see lots of different wireless networks and it always connects to the wrong one on startup. I tried setting up /etc/conf.d/wireless but I'm very new to gentoo and don't have a lot of experience editing conf files. I looked at wireless.example, but I wasn't sure how much I needed so this is all I have.

[PMcCauley]

Brandon,

You can use UDEV to make sure that the card is always set to the same name. Check out the UDEV guide.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml - not too much help

Also writing UDEV rules(this is what you need): http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php

Patrick

[brandon_r87]

Thanks, I changed

[n3bul4]

Hello,

don't know if this helps:

lets's say your networks name is "test"

essid_eth0="test"
key_test="1A:2B:3C:4D:5E enc open" #you need this if you want to set a hex key (64-bit in this case)
key_test="s:Isabelle enc open" #you need the s: option if your passwd is a simple text


You can give preferences to some essids (look at wireless.example).
Maybe that helps and it than connects to your preffered ap first.......

greetz...

[brandon_r87]

I'm using a hex key, so do I need those colons after every two characters? Just asking because that's not how I input it into my router or other computers.

[n3bul4]

Yes I think you need them.
I enter my hex key always with colons and it works.....

[brandon_r87]

OK, I fixed it and it now connects to my network on startup. I don't know what did it because I changed a few different mistakes I had made before I had udev working.