On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Lauri Kasanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If your wlan router uses WPA encryption instead of WEP, you'll also need > wpasupplicant. For WEP your steps are fine. > > After connecting like that, you just need to enter your IP, and the router's: > ip addr add 192.168.1.56/24 dev wlan0 > ip route add default 192.168.1.56/24 via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0 > echo "nameserver 192.168.1.1" > /etc/resolv.conf
It's very likely that your router is setup as a DHCP server, so you can just use a DHCP client to handle these details. There are two dhcp clients in BLFS: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/dhcpcd.html http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/basicnet/dhcpclient.html This has a summary of the wireless side: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/WirelessTools -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
