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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 [15:58], |
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Jerry McBride (mcbrides9@×××××××.net) wrote: |
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> David Röhr wrote: |
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> > I've been a Debian user a long long time, and now I wanted to try out |
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> > Gentoo. Been compiling for hours now, and I also got my wireless stuff |
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> > working. But I have some questions. |
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> > Is there no way to set stuff like SSID, WEP or WPA in some configuration |
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> > file? Most of this can be done with iwconfig, but thats no joy to do on |
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> > every boot. Sure, I can make my own init.d-script that fixes the |
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> > problem, but isn't there already some net-configuration file that I can |
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> > put in my SSID, WEP or WPA-configuration? I know both WEP an WPA isn't |
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> > the most secure stuff on the planet, but I still want to use them :) |
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> > Gentoo is great btw. Works nice on my Ibook2. Still wondering why some |
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> > packages are masked as just for x86 though. They should work fine with |
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> > ppc also. Right now I'm thinking of all the bluez-packages. |
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> We're talking laptops, right? |
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Yes. |
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> I read somewhere and plan to test it when I finally go wireless here at home |
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> is... You should disable pcmcia in the kernel and recompile it then emerge |
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> pcmcia-cs. Do so apparently give you the proper wireless config files. |
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I already got it working, and you don't use pcmcia-cs. |
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On my SSID/WEP-question. I've solved it hacking the net.eth1-file. |
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Adding support on start with.. |
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modprobe airport |
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iwconfig eth1 essid myssid |
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iwconfig eth1 key mykey |
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And on stop |
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rmmod airport |
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rmmod orinoco |
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rmmod hermes |
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Also changed the modes on the file to 700. Can't realy see why the |
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net-files should have any other setting? Why are the world-readable? |
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There seem to be some fix out there for SSID/WEP-configuration in the |
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normal /etc/conf.d/net, but it's still pretty unstable I think. |
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<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16649> |
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/d |
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