vladder wrote:Only I had to do "modprobe rtl8187 force_card = 0x8187" ...
So you have the RTL8187B wireless controller, rather than the RTL8178 wireless controller?
Also do the following to disconnect wlan0 in case it is interfering.
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# ifconfig wlan0 down
Also, try:
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# /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stop
# /etc/init.d/net.wlan4 restart
Following that, try using nm-applet (your GNOME network management GUI) to establish a connection to wlan4.
By the way, why do you have wlan0 and wlan
4? What are wlan1, wlan2 and wlan3?
Have a look in the file /etc/conf.d/net to see if wlan4 is mentioned. If not, try editing that and changing "wlan0" to "wlan4".
Also try the following to generate new IP address leases from your DHCP server (I'm assuming you're using DHCP rather than static IP addressing?):
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# dhclient wlan4
What does the following return?
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# iwlist scan
vladder wrote:understand that it should work perfectly, so I did not add the module to the boot sequence
That's correct. You don't need to configure the module to be loaded automatically at boot until you are sure everything is working. Of course, until you do that, you'll need to load it manually every time you boot. By the way, that Gentoo Wiki article assumes Baselayout-1, whereas SL uses Baselayout-2/OpenRC, so, to load the module automatically at boot, you would need to add it to the file /etc/conf.d/modules rather than the file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 stated in the article.