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From: Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 22:29:13
Message-Id: a9f1a6400608151527t60e43161y542db1564eb2f69f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs by Marc Koschewski
1 On 8/15/06, Marc Koschewski <marc@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Hi anyone,
3 >
4 > I use several WLAN APs (at work, at home, at my girlfriend's home). All of them
5 > use different SSIDs. I tried the config I found on the Gentoo Wiki and the ones
6 > I found after some googling but none of them worked. Does anyone have a working
7 > configuration for me to test? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.... thank you!
8
9 You should be able to do that by setting preferred_aps_eth1 and
10 key_SSIDNAME (for each essid if it needs a key) - so if you have one
11 AP called foo with a wep key 0123456789 and another called bar without
12 encryption, you should set /etc/conf.d/wireless something like this
13 (assuming your wireless device is eth1:
14
15 preferred_aps_eth1=("foo bar")
16 associate_order_eth1="any"
17 key_foo="0123456789 enc open"
18
19 more info in /etc/conf.d/wireless.example
20
21 You will have to restart /etc/init.d/net.eth1 every time you move from
22 one place to another though - but I would assume that you have it off
23 when you arrive so that should not be a major issue.
24
25 --
26 Neil Isaac
27 isaac.neil@×××××.com
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs Marc Koschewski <marc@×××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs Marc Koschewski <marc@×××××××××××.org>