Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs

["Neil Isaac" <isaac.neil@gmail.com>]

On 8/15/06, Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote:
> Hi anyone,
>
> I use several WLAN APs (at work, at home, at my girlfriend's home). All of them
> use different SSIDs. I tried the config I found on the Gentoo Wiki and the ones
> I found after some googling but none of them worked. Does anyone have a working
> configuration for me to test? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.... thank you!

You should be able to do that by setting preferred_aps_eth1 and
key_SSIDNAME (for each essid if it needs a key) - so if you have one
AP called foo with a wep key 0123456789 and another called bar without
encryption, you should set /etc/conf.d/wireless something like this
(assuming your wireless device is eth1:

preferred_aps_eth1=("foo bar")
associate_order_eth1="any"
key_foo="0123456789 enc open"

more info in /etc/conf.d/wireless.example

You will have to restart /etc/init.d/net.eth1 every time you move from
one place to another though - but I would assume that you have it off
when you arrive so that should not be a major issue.

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Neil Isaac
isaac.neil@gmail.com
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