Belkin wlan problem with Breezy

[Henk Koster]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 09:17:50 +0100, brian wrote:

> Hello All: just got Breezy running on my hpominbook xe4100 notebook.
> It's great - all's fine except my belkin pcmcia card. wlan0 won't come
> up. Here's what I get: ndiswrapper installs fine but 'sudo ifup wlan0'
> gives:
> 
> brian at thefergies:~$ sudo ifup wlan0
> Password:
> Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 0
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
> Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
> 
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
> Bind socket to interface: No such device
> Failed to bring up wlan0.
> 
> /etc/network/interfaces:
> 
> brian at thefergies:~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> 
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> # This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
> # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
> mapping hotplug
>         script grep
>         map eth0
> 
> # The primary network interface
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> 
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wireless-essid easynote
> #iface wlan0 inet static
> #wireless-channel 11
> #wireless-mode managed
> #wireless-rate 11M
> #wireless-key 1234567890
> #wireless-txpower 20
> #address 192.168.1.33
> #netmask 255.255.255.0
> #gateway 192.168.1.1
> 
> auto eth0
> 
> auto wlan0
> 
<snip>

If you want to start your network manually with "sudo ifup ... " then you
shouldn't start the eth0 and wlan0 interfaces automatically, so remove the
two lines starting with "auto  ... " in your interfaces file.

You may wish to look at the "network-manager" package. Do you find that
hotplug takes a long time during boot to configure the eth0 interface when
not connected... then also comment out the line in the interfaces file
with "map eth0".

-- 
H.A.J. Koster
"Behavioral axioms are right, but agents make mistakes..."
(attributed to L.J. Savage)