Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs

[Marc Koschewski]

* Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@×××××.com> [2006-08-15 22:27:01 +0000]:

> On 8/15/06, Marc Koschewski <marc@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
> >Hi anyone,
> >
> >I use several WLAN APs (at work, at home, at my girlfriend's home). All of them
> >use different SSIDs. I tried the config I found on the Gentoo Wiki and the ones
> >I found after some googling but none of them worked. Does anyone have a working
> >configuration for me to test? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.... thank you!
>
> You should be able to do that by setting preferred_aps_eth1 and
> key_SSIDNAME (for each essid if it needs a key) - so if you have one
> AP called foo with a wep key 0123456789 and another called bar without
> encryption, you should set /etc/conf.d/wireless something like this
> (assuming your wireless device is eth1:
>
> preferred_aps_eth1=("foo bar")
> associate_order_eth1="any"
> key_foo="0123456789 enc open"
>

OK, I'll give this one a try. In the docs I read the syntax of the

preferred_aps_* = ()

stuff was 

preferred_aps_* = ( "my_wlan" "your_wlan" )

and not 

preferred_aps_* = ( "my_wlan your_wlan" )

> more info in /etc/conf.d/wireless.example
>
> You will have to restart /etc/init.d/net.eth1 every time you move from
> one place to another though - but I would assume that you have it off
> when you arrive so that should not be a major issue.
>
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