On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:41:21PM -0400, Chris Bare wrote:
> > Chris:
> >
> > humm... if you send us a %lsmod it's going to help a lot!
> >
>
> I've made a lot of progress. I can get the wireless connection to work
> as long a I do everything manually. So far I have not been able to find
> any config files in gentoo to set things like the ESSID, WEP, etc.
>
> If I use the net.eth1 script to bring up the wireless, it does something
> that screws it up, but if I just do:
>
> ifconfig eth1 up
> dhcpcd eth1
>
> it works fine.
>
> So my question now is how to correctly automate the startup and be able
> to deal with different WAP's, as well as easily switching from wired to
> wireless. From what I've been able to determine, I think I'll have to
> write my own scripts for this, but any pointers would be appreciated.
> I've read about netenv, but it is a boot time change. What I want is to
> be able to use the 100baseT wire when I'm sitting at my desk, but be
> able to pull the wire and walk away with it switching to wireless
> without missing a beat.
> I thought this would be something everyone would want to do, but so far
> haven't been able to find any info on this type of setup.
>
> BTW, here's the lsmod:
>
> Module Size Used by Tainted: GF
> thermal 6624 0 (unused)
> fan 1696 0 (unused)
> button 2636 0 (unused)
> ac 1888 0 (unused)
> processor 8600 0 [thermal]
> battery 5952 0 (unused)
> ds 7016 0
> yenta_socket 10816 1
> pcmcia_core 44192 0 [ds yenta_socket]
> orinoco_pci 3364 0
> orinoco 36012 0 [orinoco_pci]
> hermes 6340 0 [orinoco_pci orinoco]
> snd-ali5451 13132 0
> snd-ac97-codec 37664 0 [snd-ali5451]
> snd-pcm 62240 0 [snd-ali5451]
> snd-timer 14728 0 [snd-pcm]
> snd 31204 0 [snd-ali5451 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm
> snd-timer]
> soundcore 3940 0 [snd]
> snd-page-alloc 5324 0 [snd-pcm]
> hid 15380 0 (unused)
> usb-ohci 19104 0 (unused)
> usbcore 63904 1 [hid usb-ohci]
It seems that you didnt emerged pcmcia-cs, so.. emerge it.. but first disable PCMCIA
support
in the kernel.. go to General Setup and check that PCMCIA/Cardbus support off and
under Network DEvice Support, Wireless LAN (no-ham radio) is on but with no
modules/drivers turned on.
Recompile your kernel and emerge pcmcia-cs
then try playing with /etc/pcmcia/wireles.opts (dont forget remove
the 3 lines in wireles.opts...)
In
INFO="Wavelan IEEE example....."
ESSID= <-- change it to any
All that i'm telling you are the "dirty" way.. but first i wanna hear that its working
for you and then fixup and make
everything clean.
Check network.opts in /etc/pcmcia too..
One of the benefits of this is that you will can put your wireless in monitor mode, so
you can use kismet for wifi sniffing.
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