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I can recommend wicd, it's a nice and easy way to handle your wireless-setup and can be run either with a gui or curses. |
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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900 |
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daid kahl <daidxor@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hey guys |
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> > I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless |
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> > i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on |
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> > gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples |
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> > but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0 |
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> > my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to |
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> > connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ? |
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> I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it |
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> work. NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the |
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> correct drivers (now in the kernels by default). |
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> I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet |
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> has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either |
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> open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared |
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> to wicd is it won't work without X. The advantage is it will take |
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> care of the conf.d/net |
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> ~daid |
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