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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when |
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> you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this |
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> automatically. |
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Perhaps if you're using WEP it's easier on a binary distro, but if |
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you're using WPA-PSK it's a lot easier on Gentoo. Just edit |
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wpa_supplicant.conf to enter your pre-shared key, and add |
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modules=("wpa_supplicant") |
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wlan0=("dhcp") |
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in /etc/conf.d/net |
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The other distros I tried all had long HOWTOs (complete with editing |
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system scripts as opposed to just editing configuration files) on how to |
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make sure wpa_supplicant would start before the interface came up. |
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Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, |
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no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft |
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