[actionfreak]

I have a Revo 3610 with an Intel wireless card running Dharma(live). I have never had wireless working on this box so it is not something that was broken with Dharma. At this point, I can't get wireless to work automatically. I have to enter the following commands manually before it works.

Code:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid myssid
sudo dhclient wlan0

I tried to put this functionality into /etc/network/interfaces and then I tried to edit /etc/rc.local with no success.


/etc/network/interfaces

Code:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
    address 172.16.0.230
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 172.16.0.0
    broadcast 172.16.0.255
    gateway 172.16.0.1
    # dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
    dns-nameservers 172.16.0.1
    dns-search dummy.net

#Wireless
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid pocoyo

/etc/rc.local

Code:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid myssid
dhclient wlan0
exit 0

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Hannes The Hun]

actually that's interesting because I have conflicting infos from the net about installing intel wireless cards into the revos. from my experience (european revo 3600 and intel 4965) either with linux or windows, the card will get installed but it simply won't connect no matter what you do. after doing some more reading it looks like the revos simply won't support anything other than atheros cards for reasons beyond me (BIOS support?).

[actionfreak]

I have an Intel 5100. It definitely works with Windows. It seems to work with XBMC Live after I enter:

sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid myssid
sudo dhclient wlan0

I just dont seem to be doing something right with the setup.

[costi]

That's how I set up my Revo 3610 to work with wireless (Atheros card):

Code:

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan1
iface wlan1 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254
wpa-ssid MY_SSID
wpa-driver wext
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk MY_PSK

Of course, MY_SSID and MY_PSK are placeholders. Also, please ignore that I have wlan1 instead of wlan0, it's a leftover after doing the install on a different machine and swapping HDDs.

After doing

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I get connected right away. ALso works with DHCP.

[actionfreak]

And now I have wireless!! Thanks Costi. I configured wireless like Costi and then had to comment out my eth0. I also changed /etc/rc.local back to default.