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

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

[Marc Koschewski]

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!

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

[Neil Isaac]

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

[Vincent Bakker]

2006/8/15, Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>:
> 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 could try to use wpa_supplicant, which will search and associate
to AP automatically.
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs

[Marc Koschewski]

* Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@gmail.com> [2006-08-15 22:27:01 +0000]:

> 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"
> 

OK, I'll give this one a try. In the docs I read the syntax of the

preferred_aps_* = ()

stuff was 

preferred_aps_* = ( "my_wlan" "your_wlan" )

and not 

preferred_aps_* = ( "my_wlan your_wlan" )

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Neil Isaac
> isaac.neil@gmail.com
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> gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list
> 

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

[Marc Koschewski]

* Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@gmail.com> [2006-08-15 22:27:01 +0000]:

> 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"

OK, I just checked it and it doesn't work as expected. Does anyone have a
working real-world configuration for me?

Thanks anyone,
Marc
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Working configuration for using multiple WLAN APs

[Manuel Rabade]

On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:52:08 +0200
Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> wrote:

> * Neil Isaac <isaac.neil@gmail.com> [2006-08-15 22:27:01 +0000]:
> 
> > 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"
> 
> OK, I just checked it and it doesn't work as expected. Does anyone
> have a working real-world configuration for me?

config_eth1=( "dhcp" )

mode_eth1="auto"
associate_order_eth1="forceany"

adhoc_essid_eth1="mig_laptop"
config_mig_laptop=( "10.0.0.69 netmask 255.255.255.0" )

preferred_aps=( "ap1" "ap2" "atheros1" )
blacklist_aps=( "" )

# Map MAC to SSID in case they don't do SSID broadcast
essid_001495E1DF81="ap1"
essid_00026F34A80A="ap2"

# WEPS
key_ap1="AAAA-BBBB-CCCC-DDDD-EEEE-AA"
key_ap2="EEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA-EE"

# atheros1 don't have a DHCP :-(
config_atheros1=( "192.168.1.29 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_atheros1=( "default via 192.168.1.254" )
dns_servers_atheros1=( "200.33.146.202" )

Everything is from /etc/conf.d/wireless.example.

Greetings.

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