Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

[Zeerak Waseem]

This is my etc/conf.d/net file:

modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
preferred_aps=("ESSID1" "ESSID2")
essid_wlan0="any"

All specific stuff is in /wpa_supplicant/supplicant.conf

Zeerak

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:17:15 +0100, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:

> I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless
> Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically:
>
> essid_wlan0="myWLAN"
> key_MYWLAN="somekey"
> config_MYWLAN=( "dhcp" )
> preferred_APS= ( "myWLAN" )
>
> I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a
> more dynamic configuration.
> I've tried to setup WPA supplicant but haven't been able to get it to
> work.
>
> My last attempt was with:
>
> modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
> wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
>
> I also tried the iwconfig setup:
>
> modules=( "iwconfig" )
> iwconfig_wlan0="mode managed"
> wpa_timeout_wlan0=15
>
> Both these were based on configurations I found while researching gentoo
> wireless configurations:
>
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless_Networking
>
> the wpa_supplicant man page possibly suggests uses "-Dbroadcom", but the
> following supports "-Dwext" since I have the b43legacy driver working
> (firmware extracted using b43-fwcutter a while back; dmesg reports
> version 0x127).
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> I have both the iwconfig utilities and wpa supplicant installed. When I
> used wpa supplicant with either configuration it would just keep
> searching.
>
> Now, my wireless configuration is currently WEP; and I'd like to upgrade
> to WPA/WPA2 once I can get a wireless tool on the system as well.
>
> Is there anything I'm doing wrong with the configuration above?
>
> Also - what is the correct GUI for configuring connections under KDE4? I
> know of the WPA Supplicant GUI; and the GNOME GUI; but would like
> something under more directly KDE4.
>
> KNemo just puts up monitors that are pretty useless (though look pretty).
>
> TIA,
>
> Ben
>
> P.S. It seems my Linksys WRT54G v3 needs a firmware update for WPA2. So
> right now, I'd just like to be able to configure dynamically for my WEP
> network; then I'll focus on going to WPA/WPA2.
>
>


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