Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:
> I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge to get network access.
>
> /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 starts, but goes immediately inactive. From what I can find on-line, this seems to have been something common after moving to Base Layout 2/OpenRC; however, I couldn't find anything that specified what the actual solution was - I think most ended up doing a complete reinstall of their wicd/wpa-supplicant software - either way details were lacking.  I've successfully had wpa-supplicant working in the past, and as a result of all of this I've tried to get it up through the other method too (iwconfig?), but no success. (I think I have managed to get it to scan some, but not sufficiently and certainly no connections.)

Did you followed the instructions at

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml

specifically the network section?

> Anyone see this issue and know what the solution is? I'd like to at least get my 802.11g access back - the current setup is a bit of a pain and very limiting.

Since you use a laptop, I will assume you have either KDE, GNOME or
Xfce. If that's the case, why don't you try NetworkManager or connman,
and use the GUI thingy to do the work for you? I haven't manually
configured a wireless network in years, and I have been the last three
months traveling with my laptop literally all over the world,
connecting to all kinds of access points.

NetworkMnager just works, but I also hear great comments about connman.

Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México