Wireless Bootup error

Forum: Networking
Topic: Wireless Bootup error
started by: wavetel

Posted by wavetel on May 28 2006,11:56

I am getting a DSL boot error that says.
"error for wireless request ... 8B04"
"set failed on eth0 not supported" . Its trying to set channel 6 on a Compaq WL110 card which is a Orinoco card basically. The WLan works ok .. The error causes the boot to freeze for nearly a minute before continuing which is annoying.

This all happened when I chose to Save the Wireless settings . Ive never bothered with this before. This is DSL 2.4
Here are a couple of relavant copy paste extracts from the backup.tar.gz file. This problem appears even prior to me trying to do a Prism card setup so I suspect the issue lies in the iwconfig.sh

How can I delete all the Wireless configs and start again? Is there a way? Unless I delete the backup.tar.gz file and do all my configs again from scratch without saving the wireless each time it asks I dont know what else to do.

myiwconfig.sh
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/iwconfig.sh eth0 6 "" F2A640FE15 2>&1 >/dev/null

myprism2.sh
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/prism2.sh wlan0 6 "" F2A640FE15 2>&1 >/dev/null

bootlocal.sh
#!/bin/bash
# put other system startup command here
loadkeys us
/opt/myiwconfig.sh
/opt/myprism2.sh

Posted by larkl on May 28 2006,11:59

Can you just comment out the the lines in the myiwconfig.sh and myprism2.sh scripts?

Posted by roberts on May 28 2006,17:30

You only need one of those my.... wireless scripts.
It depends on which one is proper for your chipset.
If you don't know which one actually works, then comment out ( place a # at the beginning of the line) one of them in /opt/bootlocal.sh then reboot to test.

Posted by wavetel on June 07 2006,10:36

Yes I know I only need one of those lines in the script for this one card. Originally there was only one line and I still had issues with this bootup delay.. Ive now deleted the backup file and started my configs again. I will avoid saving the wireless config and just set it up each time I boot.
There does not seem to be any easy way to get rid of the wireless config and create a new one in the backup. I tried to manually REM out and delete the script file but it didnt save it even though it said it did save. Bit of a loss to me really..

I was more concerned about the 60 second bootup delay due to the error in the channel, for future releases. Perhaps this needs to be looked at and fixed. This error is not being generated from the Prism card settings which are irrelavant but from the other Card (iwconfig) .

A easy way to edit or change this script or clear all wireless settings from the backup.tar.gz would be good in case you want to change it or dont like the settings.