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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 |