ok, I got it working without encryption. Here is what I did I configured my kernel according to these webpages...
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Requirements and http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/KernelConfig ...then I configured my system as follows... 1)Add madwifi to USE flags 2)emerge wpa_supplicant 3)emerge madwifi-ng and madwifi-ng-tools 4)cp net.eth0 net.ath0 5)rc-update add net.ath0 default 6)nano /etc/modprobe.d/ath_pci and add the following... options ath_pci autocreate=ap 7)add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start ifconfig ath0 down wlanconfig ath0 destroy wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode ap 8)nano /etc/conf.d/net and add mode_ath0="Master" essid_ath0="CarsonNet" config_ath0=( "192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255" ) wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi" Then I configured dhcpd and bind which I won't get into and it all worked. I now have a wireless access point with Gentoo! So my question now is, how do I enable WPA encryption? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
