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On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 21:25 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> if I use the Wifi services, is whether I would need to add hardware to my machine |
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It depends on if your motherboard has an integrated Wifi chip or not. |
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If it does not have an external connector for an antenna, it probably |
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doesn't have the hardware. |
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However, USB wifi adapters are quite affordable and sufficient for your |
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use case, in my opinion. |
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> whether I would need to add any packages to my Gentoo system. |
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Yes, you will. You'll need to find out what chipset is used by the |
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adapter you want to add (or already have). Once you have that, you can |
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enable the appropriate kernel drivers and rebuild, and then you'll need |
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to install net-wireless/wpa_supplicant to make the actual connection. |
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wpa_supplicant can be cumbersome to set up by hand, but the Arch wiki |
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has a very comprehensive page[1] on how to configure it. |
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Alternatively, there are GUI tools for managing the configuration (the |
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aptly named wpa_gui is usually enough; to get this, you need to enable |
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the qt5 use flag for wpa_supplicant), but if you're connecting to one |
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network, and never changing the configuration, that might be overkill. |
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1: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wpa_supplicant |
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