Atheros based card goofy on startup

theMerge

OK... I'm sick of Googling and searching so I'm going to break down and ask for help. My wireless card (atheros based) acts goofy when net.ath0 starts up during the boot sequence. I have to restart fairly often due to STUFF I have to do on windows

. As soon as the system is started and I get to at terminal, everything acts just as it should.

Here's what I get...

swimmer · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:44 am Post subject:

As a workaround I put those two lines in my /etc/conf.d/local.start:

theMerge · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:39 am Post subject:

It's a hack, but I think it will work. I'll just start the dependencies in local.start and see what happens.
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Suicidal · l33t Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null

Try increasing your DHCP timeout in /etc/conf.d/net

theMerge · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:58 am Post subject:

swimmer · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:18 am Post subject:

niltonvolpato · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:15 am Post subject:

I'm having this same problem. And I suppose that your problem is just like mine: the net.ath0 script is trying to connect using a random channel and not the channel of the associated access point.

The problem is weird, because putting:

pdr · l33t Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 618

Same problem - finds ap but connects on channel 11 when the ap is on channel 1.
I just manually log in as root first and do "iwconfig ath0 channel 1" - I may try putting that in localstart..

Aapzak · n00b Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 12

It's even worse ... sometimes I says to me it's connecting on channel 7, and when I check with iwlist ath0 chan, it apears to be on an other channel.

This is weird. There is no bug on bugs.gentoo.org either.

niltonvolpato · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject:

There is a bug report i filled. It's here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181545
Please, help by providing information. And any hints so that someone can fix this.

def_mornahan · Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 1:55 am Post subject:

I have a similar problem, but all I have to do to fix it is type

x1um1n · Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:37 pm Post subject:

same problem here, I don't reboot often so its not too annoying, but after upgrading my kernel today its started behaving in an even stranger manner..

after the initial timeout on boot a message pops up saying its been given an IP, but its not the usual IP my router gives me (192.168.2.2 or sumat) but what looks like an actual internet IP..

eg 265.125.42.8 or sumat like that..

but, of course, still no net access..

So I've vowed to solve this once and for all, has anyone else had this newer even stranger behaviour??

I'll post back if I figure anything out..
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krisse · Guru Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 325 Location: Sweden

Same problem here. Really annoying.

Putting a ath0 restart in local.start does the trick, but it's, as you've said, a really ugly hack.

Also tried some postup functions, as suggested in other threads; neither "ifconfig ath0 up" or "iwconfig ath0 channel 6" works.

Has anyone gotten this to work -- any other way than the local.start restarting?

def_mornahan · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: once again with feeling

Is there something wrong with the net.ath0 script? For s's & g's I pushed 'I' for interactive boot and chose not to start net.lo and net.ath0. So I ran