Re: [Madwifi-users] Timeout for ath_pci / iwconfig initialisation ?

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 15:50 +0200, Duncan Gibson wrote:
> I have an SMCWPCI-G wireless card which lspci identifies as:
> Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
> 
> How can I guarantee that the interface is fully initialised
> before trying to use it?

I'm afraid nobody can guarantee that.  There are way too many things
that can break, from the driver to the antenna.

> I have been running Lunar Linux (http://www.lunar-linux.org)
> with madwifi-0.9.3 without problems, until recent changes in
> the network setup code on Lunar. After some experimentation,
> the simplest configuration I can come up with triggers the
> following steps:
> 
>   iwconfig ath0 key "s:1234567890123"
>   iwconfig ath0 essid "myNetwork"
>   dhcpcd -h myComputer ath0
>   route add default gateway 123.456.789.0
> 
> Unfortunately 50% of reboots result in the error message:
>   Setting default route: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
> but then running the dhcpcd command manually always works.
> The other 50% of the time the interface comes up normally.

This sounds like a problem specific to your Linux distribution.  Please
report it to the distribution, not here.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin