Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools
Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0 my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ? I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it work. NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the correct drivers (now in the kernels by default). I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared to wicd is it won't work without X. The advantage is it will take care of the conf.d/net ~daid
Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools
I can recommend wicd, it's a nice and easy way to handle your wireless-setup and can be run either with a gui or curses. On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900 daid kahl daid...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0 my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ? I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it work. NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the correct drivers (now in the kernels by default). I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared to wicd is it won't work without X. The advantage is it will take care of the conf.d/net ~daid --
Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900, daid kahl wrote: I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared to wicd is it won't work without X. The advantage is it will take care of the conf.d/net Wicd doesn't need anything in conf.d/net. -- Neil Bothwick Duct tape is the just like the Force: it has a light side, a dark side, and binds the universe together. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nelis Botha nelis.bo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0 my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ? any advice will be extremely welcome Hi Nelis, I'm using wicd to manager my eth0 and wlan0. My /etc/conf.d/net has notinhg but dns_domain= In /etc/init.d I only have net.lo and my /etc/conf.d/rc has RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0 !net.wlan0. Before using wicd, I had started manually my wlan0 using ifconfig , iwconfig and dhcpcd. This configuration works fine for my laptop. Thanks Nelis
