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Actually, as someone who uses wireless across a number of nets, wireless |
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on gentoo sucks hugely. |
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Was at a presentation the other day and saw an Ubutu user just walk in, |
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a couple of quick commands and he had connected - after much work I |
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still cant do that to a particular no-encryption net. I am hoping the |
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last wpa_supplicant version I have installed will make the difference - |
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manual iwconfig does work by the way, just not via the gentoo files! |
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A mess of config files |
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(/etc/conf.d/wireless, /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant, ...), |
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different versions of software work in only some combinations - only |
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0.4.5 (~x86) will work with 2.6.14, some other versions will do WPA_PSK, |
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but not no encryption.- - I suspect the gentoo config design is the main |
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stumbling block. |
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I realise wireless is complicated (read the above files for instance, |
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but gentoo has complicated things further (try and work out which of the |
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above files a particular variable will work ... note that for |
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wpa_supplicant, not all permutations are listed in the otherwise |
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comprehensive instructions) |
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BillK |
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:24 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote: |
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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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> -- |
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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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-- |
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William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au> |
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