> > help me through the > > principles and the details, with a new Hint as a result (because the > > old one is rather out of date). > > > > > > Hans. >
There's nothing wrong with the instructions in the book as long as you understand that getting wifi working is usually a two-stage process: the first is loading the kernel driver and firmware (if necessary), and the second is associating the device with the wireless router using encryption. At least, that is the most common scenario. To get started, and forgetting about packages like NetworkManager et al, just install wireless tools and wpa_supplicant. Then, once you have installed the correct driver and firmware (inspect dmesg) you should see wlan0, or something similar, when you run iwconfig as root. You will also see "no association". If you haven't done so already, you now need to configure wpa_supplicant, as per the book, to set up encryption and association with the wireless router. When you have done that, and if you have followed the book, run the following command as root:- wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant-wifi0.conf -d where -i is your interface and -c is your configuration file. This will run the daemon in the foreground and output the results to the console giving debug info. Wpa_supplicant has well written man pages which you can use. If all goes well you can run iwconfig again, as root, and you should see that your wifi adapter has now associated itself with your wireless router, and is displaying it's MAC address. Once you are happy that it's working you can, if you wish, install Armin's bootscript, which appears to work well. I hope that's of some help. Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
