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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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>>(Never tried w/ Gentoo.) |
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> I don't get this one. I guess I've just been lucky and have only bought |
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> good wireless cards, but for me it only takes editing a couple lines in |
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> /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and restarting pcmcia. |
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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. Also, |
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> has anyone written up good documentation for setting up wireless for the |
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> Handbook? That would probably be a good idea of something to do. |
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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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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 sets |
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parameters (ssid, WEP, etc.) |
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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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I hear though that a new wireless config system has made its way into |
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the new baselayout, so this may not be an issue later. |
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