Eee Box. Using ndiswrapper along with driver from Asus CD.
Wireless does work. But when trying to set it up using Ad Hoc I get on boot:
ra0 device: RaLink RT2860command ‘iwconfig ra0 mode Ad-hoc’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Mode” (8B06) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 nick eeesrvr’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Nickname” (8B1C) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 key off’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Encode” (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 key open *************’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Encode” (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 essid eeelab’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set ESSID” (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
ra0 IP address: 192.168.2.254/24
done
More:
eeesrvr:~ # rcnetwork restart
Shutting down network interfaces:
eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) done
pan0
No configuration found for pan0
Nevertheless the interface will be shut down.
bridge-utils not installed done
ra0 device: RaLink RT2860 done
Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . done
Setting up network interfaces:
eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
eth0 Starting DHCP4 client
eth0 IP address: 192.168.1.143/24 (eeesrvr) done
pan0
No configuration found for pan0 unused
ra0 device: RaLink RT2860
command ‘iwconfig ra0 mode Ad-hoc’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Mode” (8B06) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 nick eeesrvr’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Nickname” (8B1C) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 key off’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Encode” (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 key open 2c1271aa70b37dc65a5171e5b0’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set Encode” (8B2A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
command ‘iwconfig ra0 essid eeelab’ returned
Error for wireless request “Set ESSID” (8B1A) :
SET failed on device ra0 ; Network is down.
ra0 IP address: 192.168.2.254/24 done
Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . done
SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 …
SuSEfirewall2: using default zone ‘ext’ for interface pan0
SuSEfirewall2: batch committing…
SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set
But then I can enter:
eeesrvr:~ # rcnetwork start
Setting up network interfaces:
eth0 device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
eth0 DHCP4 client is already running
eth0 IP address: 192.168.1.143/24 done
pan0
No configuration found for pan0 unused
ra0 device: RaLink RT2860
ra0 IP address: 192.168.2.254/24 done
Setting up service network . . . . . . . . . . done
SuSEfirewall2: Setting up rules from /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 …
SuSEfirewall2: using default zone ‘ext’ for interface pan0
SuSEfirewall2: batch committing…
SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully seteeesrvr:~ # iwconfig ra0
ra0 RT2860 Wireless ESSID:"" Nickname:“eeesrvr”
Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency=2.412 GHz Cell: DE:50:BA:B6:78:C8
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=10/100 Signal level:0 dBm Noise level:-97 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
So…how can I delay the settings getting applied on start up?