From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EehbY-0006ix-7t for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:31:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAMNTdxJ029289; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:29:39 GMT Received: from mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au (ihug-mail.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAMNK2rK028093 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:20:03 GMT Received: from 203-59-213-82.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.213.82]) by mail-ihug.icp-qv1-irony2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2005 07:20:00 +0800 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8754D19D49D for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:19:59 +0800 (WST) Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17583-06 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:19:56 +0800 (WST) Received: from rattus (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5349191BF9 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:19:56 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?) From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <43835461.7000206@mclure.org> References: <8aaf1ee00511210433s6d23e8a6l6d95c9c2f2ed8b7d@mail.gmail.com> <200511211413.14160.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <4381E519.7090900@planet.nl> <342e1090511211019x5070f5c3x4c7df4864d0a0f4e@mail.gmail.com> <43824B35.4020904@planet.nl> <20051122092401.2ca806b8@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <43835461.7000206@mclure.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home! Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:19:56 +0800 Message-Id: <1132701596.28114.20.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain X-Archives-Salt: a4c06931-79a8-4b77-973a-880efb262ef5 X-Archives-Hash: 5d2200a08e59a2294f2be259a8f5a7a3 Actually, as someone who uses wireless across a number of nets, wireless on gentoo sucks hugely. Was at a presentation the other day and saw an Ubutu user just walk in, a couple of quick commands and he had connected - after much work I still cant do that to a particular no-encryption net. I am hoping the last wpa_supplicant version I have installed will make the difference - manual iwconfig does work by the way, just not via the gentoo files! A mess of config files (/etc/conf.d/wireless, /etc/conf.d/net, /etc/wpa_supplicant, ...), different versions of software work in only some combinations - only 0.4.5 (~x86) will work with 2.6.14, some other versions will do WPA_PSK, but not no encryption.- - I suspect the gentoo config design is the main stumbling block. I realise wireless is complicated (read the above files for instance, but gentoo has complicated things further (try and work out which of the above files a particular variable will work ... note that for wpa_supplicant, not all permutations are listed in the otherwise comprehensive instructions) BillK On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 09:24 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Try plugging in a wireless NIC. It's not hard to set on up manually when > > you know what you are doing, but other distros will take care of this > > automatically. > > Perhaps if you're using WEP it's easier on a binary distro, but if > you're using WPA-PSK it's a lot easier on Gentoo. Just edit > wpa_supplicant.conf to enter your pre-shared key, and add > > modules=("wpa_supplicant") > wlan0=("dhcp") > > in /etc/conf.d/net > > The other distros I tried all had long HOWTOs (complete with editing > system scripts as opposed to just editing configuration files) on how to > make sure wpa_supplicant would start before the interface came up. > > > -- > Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW > ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, > no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- William Kenworthy Home! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list