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. > > <snip> > > > 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
