On 7/7/06, Colleen Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/5/06, A. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then
> > follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred)
> > wpa-supplicant? Is there anything else I have to do or install?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Colleen
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> May I suggest that you try first with wireless-tools?
>
>
> Things you need to know:
> 1. The interface id of the wireless card (eth0, eth1, wlan0 etc...)
> 2. The "essid" of the wireless access point you are connecting to.
> 3. The encryption key (if any) for wireless access (WEP)
>
> Once you have those you can run the following commands (after you have
> emerged wireless-tools) Using eth1 as the interface for example:
>
> iwconfig eth1 essid <the essid of the access point>
> iwconfig eth1 key <the encryption key>
> dhcpcd eth1
Okay, I emerged ndiswrapper which also emerged wireless-tools. I haven't
yet created any configuration files. However, if I run iwconfig, this is
what I get:
localhost ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"beam26wireless"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:10:99:9C:BF
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-60 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
So, I assume that eth1 would be replaced by wlan0 in the commands above,
correct?
> If this works, then depending on how you want to configure your box
> you may want to set all this configuration in the file
> /etc/conf.d/wireless (BTW, please take a look at the file
> /etc/conf.d/wireless.example, it does have very good comments that
> would make this very understandable), or you may want to go for
> wpa_supplicant.
Well, I already have wireless-tools on my laptop because it was installed
with ndiswrapper. As you note, my access point (a wireless cable/DSL
router) is recognized and I realize that there isn't an encryption key set.
The thing is, I *have* looked at /etc/conf.d/wireless.example and it may as
well be hieroglyphics. I don't know which section to alter. Right now, if
I'm on my laptop, I want to be able to connect to the access point in my
apartment. However, if I'm at someplace that has wireless access, I want to
be able to scan for an available network. So, I don't know what section to
changed.
Hi Colleen,
I would really recommend you use wpa_supplicant as IMO it is far
easier to configure and supports more access methods than iwconfig.
Since your wireless card is clearly detected it should be trivial to
setup. Check out this article in the wiki (which you may have already
looked at):
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup#Configuration_using_wpa_supplicant
-Mike
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