On 5/22/07, Walt S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm totally lost with Angstrom. > I have been using various Zaurus configurations with a variety or ROMs for > several years, but I am completely lost here. > I have read the WIKI. > I have installed the Akita > (Angstrom-x11-image-test-20070507-akita.rootfs.summary.jffs2) > distribution on my C1000, and the first thing I need to get going is > Wireless networking. > > Quoting from the manual: > > "The best wifi devices for linux are based on the prism2 or prism2.5 > chipsets, because they can be controlled using the hostap drivers, which > allows the use of WEP and WPA encryption. Other chipsets such as Spectrum24 > in the Socket/Symbol CF wifi cards can only do WEP." > > - I have a WCF11 that uses Prism2 chipset. I have configured it for my > network using the Network Configuration applet. > > > > > Again from the manual: > > "The base install of Ångström for Zaurus/Spitzdid not include > wireless-tools, so if you cannot use the iwconfig or iwspy commands, be sure > to install the wireless-tools package!" > > - It took a while but I finally found the if... tools in /sbin, but when I > try to start the interface with /sbin/ifup wlan0 ti tells me "No such > device", even though it is clearly there in ht Network Configuration GUI. I > don't know what to do next. > > - I looked on the Feed Browser, but cannot find .ipkg files to download onto > a sd card to install them that way. I don't have a "big" Linux PC on which > to compile, and would not know how to make an .ipkg anyway. > > > > > Please, someone help me get the WI-FI card working - after that I can find > and install the packages I need. >
The wireless-tools ipk should be in the feeds. -- Justin Patrin _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
