ifup script on SuSE 9.1 Pro

1 Sep 2004

      I'm trying to set up my SuSE 9.1 box as an open Access Point with
HostAP.  Its all configured to load up the HostAP modules & they seem
to be working just fine but the ifup script doesnt seem to be working
for the interface.  The interface doesnt start up on boot either.  The
card is a D-Link DWL-520.  When I do a 'ifup wlan0' i get the
following output:

# ifup wlan0
    wlan0
ERROR: No configuration found for wlan0

yet in my /etc/sysconfig/network directory there's a config file for
my wireless card. (ifcfg-wlan-bus-pci-0000:01:07.0).  Here's its
contents:

BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST='10.6.0.255'
IPADDR='10.6.0.1'
MTU=''
NETMASK='255.255.255.0'
NETWORK='10.6.0.0'
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='2_DJ.nKQKZ9PaRIC'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL='3'
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_ESSID='UseButDontAbuse'
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Master'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_POWER='no'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:01:07.0'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY='

Also, here's the output of iwconfig:

# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"UseButDontAbuse"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:05:5D:F9:C6:83
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wlan0ap   IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"UseButDontAbuse"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:05:5D:F9:C6:83
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

wlan0sta  IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"UseButDontAbuse"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

Am I missing something or is the ifup script not working right, and
how can I get it working?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Grant Limberg
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