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> ok, I got it working without encryption. Here is what I did I configured |
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> my kernel according to these webpages... |
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> http://madwifi.org/wiki/Requirements |
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> and |
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> http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/KernelConfig |
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> ...then I configured my system as follows... |
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> 1)Add madwifi to USE flags |
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> 2)emerge wpa_supplicant |
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> 3)emerge madwifi-ng and madwifi-ng-tools |
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> 4)cp net.eth0 net.ath0 |
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> 5)rc-update add net.ath0 default |
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> 6)nano /etc/modprobe.d/ath_pci and add the following... |
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> options ath_pci autocreate=ap |
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> 7)add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start |
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OOPS: I added it to local.stop |
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> ifconfig ath0 down |
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> wlanconfig ath0 destroy |
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> wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap |
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> 8)nano /etc/conf.d/net and add |
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> mode_ath0="Master" |
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> essid_ath0="CarsonNet" |
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> config_ath0=( "192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" |
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> ) |
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> wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" |
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> Then I configured dhcpd and bind which I won't get into and it all worked. |
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> I now have a wireless access point with Gentoo! |
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> So my question now is, how do I enable WPA encryption? |
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