[gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

[gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

[Kessler, Paul]

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Has anyone played around with setting up wifi on a LiveCD? I was asked
about doing that this morning, but I have always thought that there was
a bit to much magic involved to get wifi setup that putting it on a
liveCD might prove difficult. Any thoughts or comments on the subject
would be appreciated.

 

Paul 


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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 07:47 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> Has anyone played around with setting up wifi on a LiveCD? I was asked
> about doing that this morning, but I have always thought that there
> was a bit to much magic involved to get wifi setup that putting it on
> a liveCD might prove difficult. Any thoughts or comments on the
> subject would be appreciated.

Well, "net-setup eth0" works fine for manual configuration.  If you're
just looking for scanning, it should work by default, depending on the
driver used for the card.  Basically, it isn't any different than
setting up regular networking.  If you want the CD to have a specific
ESSID/Key, then set it in /etc/conf.d/wireless in your fsscript.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

[Kessler, Paul]

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On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 07:47 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> Has anyone played around with setting up wifi on a LiveCD? I was asked
> about doing that this morning, but I have always thought that there
> was a bit to much magic involved to get wifi setup that putting it on
> a liveCD might prove difficult. Any thoughts or comments on the
> subject would be appreciated.

Well, "net-setup eth0" works fine for manual configuration.  If you're
just looking for scanning, it should work by default, depending on the
driver used for the card.  Basically, it isn't any different than
setting up regular networking.  If you want the CD to have a specific
ESSID/Key, then set it in /etc/conf.d/wireless in your fsscript.

--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux



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RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

[Kessler, Paul]

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Sorry my comments didn't go through on that e-mail, dang web client. It
sounds like this isn't going to be as painful as I anticipated, at least
for the chipsets covered by the kernel. How about the ndiswrapper? Have
you had any luck playing with that? It almost sounds to good to be true.
I am considering including the package and then loading a folder with a
few of the more common wifi drivers. 

 

________________________________

From: Kessler, Paul [mailto:kessler@co.wabasha.mn.us] 
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:19 AM
To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

 

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 07:47 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> Has anyone played around with setting up wifi on a LiveCD? I was asked
> about doing that this morning, but I have always thought that there
> was a bit to much magic involved to get wifi setup that putting it on
> a liveCD might prove difficult. Any thoughts or comments on the
> subject would be appreciated.

Well, "net-setup eth0" works fine for manual configuration.  If you're
just looking for scanning, it should work by default, depending on the
driver used for the card.  Basically, it isn't any different than
setting up regular networking.  If you want the CD to have a specific
ESSID/Key, then set it in /etc/conf.d/wireless in your fsscript.

--
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux


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RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Wifi

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 08:45 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> Sorry my comments didn’t go through on that e-mail, dang web client.
> It sounds like this isn’t going to be as painful as I anticipated, at
> least for the chipsets covered by the kernel. How about the
> ndiswrapper? Have you had any luck playing with that? It almost sounds
> to good to be true. I am considering including the package and then
> loading a folder with a few of the more common wifi drivers.

I haven't ever attempted to use ndiswrapper.

If you have success with it, then I wouldn't mind seeing a short little
HOWTO posted here.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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