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William Kenworthy wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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Interesting, as the distro I was specifically comparing to was Kubuntu - |
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getting it to connect to my WPA-PSK network at home was a PITA, while |
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Gentoo worked beautifully - emerge ndiswrapper, run ndiswrapper -i to |
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install the driver, emerge wpa_supplicant, modify a stanza in the |
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wpa_supplicant.conf file to reflect my SSID and PSK, and "ifup wlan0". |
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Kubuntu had no options for entering a WPA-PSK key other than manually |
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editing the files, and you had to trick it to make sure that it ran the |
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supplicant before trying to bring the interface up. |
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By the way, wpa_supplicant should handle non-encrypted and WEP networks |
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very nicely - if you use it you don't need to play around with |
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/etc/conf.d/wireless. |
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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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