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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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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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