Actually, as someone who uses wireless across a number of nets, wireless
on gentoo sucks hugely.
Was at a presentation the other day and saw an Ubutu user just walk in,
a couple of quick commands and he had connected - after much work I
still cant do that to a particular no-encryption net. I am hoping the
last wpa_supplicant version I have installed will make the difference -
manual iwconfig does work by the way, just not via the gentoo files!
A mess of config files
(/etc/conf.d/wireless, /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant, ...),
different versions of software work in only some combinations - only
0.4.5 (~x86) will work with 2.6.14, some other versions will do WPA_PSK,
but not no encryption.- - I suspect the gentoo config design is the main
stumbling block.
I realise wireless is complicated (read the above files for instance,
but gentoo has complicated things further (try and work out which of the
above files a particular variable will work ... note that for
wpa_supplicant, not all permutations are listed in the otherwise
comprehensive instructions)
BillK
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:24 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when
> > you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this
> > automatically.
>
> Perhaps if you're using WEP it's easier on a binary distro, but if
> you're using WPA-PSK it's a lot easier on Gentoo. Just edit
> wpa_supplicant.conf to enter your pre-shared key, and add
>
> modules=("wpa_supplicant")
> wlan0=("dhcp")
>
> in /etc/conf.d/net
>
> The other distros I tried all had long HOWTOs (complete with editing
> system scripts as opposed to just editing configuration files) on how to
> make sure wpa_supplicant would start before the interface came up.
>
>
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