Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-20 Thread Spundun Bhatt
Thanx Joshua, what you said in your mail was all I needed. Now I became more brave and tried with encryption. this time I am getting the follosing messages and all sort of wierd things happen. sometimes the led keeps blinking, after I played once with the wlancfg-* file that blinking stopped but

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-20 Thread Joshua J. Berry
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 00:27, Spundun Bhatt wrote: Thanx Joshua, what you said in your mail was all I needed. Now I became more brave and tried with encryption. this time I am getting the follosing messages and all sort of wierd things happen. sometimes the led keeps blinking, after I played

RE: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-20 Thread Joshua J. Berry
If you have a config file or two I can look at, that would be most helpful...right now I think I'm using my own net.wlan0 script, because I have IPsec setup on my wireless network (which seems to work much better than WEP). Thanks! -- Josh On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 23:53, Gwendolyn van der Linden

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-20 Thread Eric Olinger
On 19 Feb 2003 22:36:57 -0800 Spundun Bhatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I had this wireless card(Hawking somemodel) working on the same machine 4 months back under redhat with linux-wlan-ng. So I tried to configure it on the gentoo system. I think I have got most of the pieces togather...

Re: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-20 Thread Spundun Bhatt
arrrgh... My machine was configured properly... only I had to *restart* the wireless router after configuring for encryption which I forgot :(( Sorry for the spam. Spundun p.s.: yes Joshua.. you were right.. thanx again. On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 08:38, Spundun Bhatt wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-20 at

RE: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-20 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
If you have a config file or two I can look at, that would be most helpful... I will. right now I think I'm using my own net.wlan0 script, because I have IPsec setup on my wireless network (which seems to work much better than WEP). Most articles I read on wireless VPN suggest ssh+ppp

RE: [gentoo-user] configuring wlan

2003-02-19 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Hi, You need to create yourself a net.wlan0 init script. Usually you can just copy net.eth0 and add need pcmcia to the depend() section. I have a Linksys WPC11 up and running on my laptop. Unfortunately, the laptop is at home, and I am at work... I removed all Wireless support from the