NetworkManager, wlan0 doesn't come up by default

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 18:12 -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> Aaron Konstam escribió:
> > You are looking at this wrong. Here is my relevant modprobe.conf lines.
> > 
> > alias eth0 tg3
> > alias eth1 ipw2200 
> > 
> > It is the module for the wireless NIC that is loaded not anything called
> > eth1. eth1 is created when the connection is made by NM.
> 
> OK, seems like I'm getting closer.
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# modprobe bcm43xx-mac80211
> [root at localhost ~]# iwlist scan
> lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> wmaster0  Interface doesn't support scanning.
> 
> wlan0     No scan results
> 
> 
> So the problem is that the module doesn't get loaded at boot time.
> 
> Now that I've modprobed my wireless driver knetworkmanager shows the 
> wireless network.

Did you post earlier what's in your /etc/modprobe.conf?

> 
> 
-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs