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Hello, |
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I managed to intall madwifi-ng, wpa_supplicant and rebuild the |
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kernel with cryto, so far. |
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The hardware in this protable is: |
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02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 |
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802.11abg NIC (rev 01 |
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wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr |
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00-18-4D-4C-0C-9B-7B-B6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 |
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BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 |
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RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 |
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TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 |
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collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 |
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RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) |
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Interrupt:5 Memory:faa80000-faa90000 |
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My question is there a gui to manage the wireless |
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connection and should I add an iptables script to secure |
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the machine when accessing variouls networks with 802.11? |
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Also, does any gui manage/control the dhcp handshaking that |
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occurs at various location, which is the same gui that monitors/manages |
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the wireless connect and firewall(iptables)? possibility |
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would be a wireless (static) ip at site where access occurs frequently |
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in lieu of dhcp. Is that a gui that one can use to manages all of the |
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various common configuration choices, or is it a roll_your_own |
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type of management for 802.11 type devices. |
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Googling does not produce much: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Wireless |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ar5212 |
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that is specifically related to managing and using the wireless interface. |
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James |
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