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On Thursday 07 October 2004 07:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: |
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> Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 12:20, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> >>On Wednesday 06 October 2004 3:43 pm, marcos ferreyra wrote: |
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> >>>Examples of things that DON'T WORK out-of-the-box are |
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> >>>* wireless (in my experience, very hard to set up) |
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> >> |
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> >>(Never tried w/ Gentoo.) |
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> > |
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> > I don't get this one. I guess I've just been lucky and have only |
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> > bought good wireless cards, but for me it only takes editing a couple |
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> > lines in /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and restarting pcmcia. |
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> > |
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> > I also have been working on making net-setup on the LiveCD |
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> > wireless-capable, so expect to see that for the 2004.3 release. |
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> > Also, has anyone written up good documentation for setting up |
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> > wireless for the Handbook? That would probably be a good idea of |
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> > something to do. |
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> |
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> That's if you have a PCMCIA card. Here's what I had to do for my |
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> built-in laptop mPCI card to work: |
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> |
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> 1. Install Driverloader (not Gentoo's fault) |
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> 2. Set to autoload module at start |
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> 3. Add a dirty hack to /etc/init.d/net.eth1 that calls iwconfig and |
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> sets parameters (ssid, WEP, etc.) |
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> |
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> Of course, this only works for a single location. If I want to travel, |
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> it means booting, waiting for everything to time out, editing the |
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> net.eth1 script, and rebooting, or running iwconfig manually and |
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> restarting all the failed services. |
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If you just run "rc" as root all services for your current runlevel will |
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be started (it only uses the status as it knows it, not the real status) |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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