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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FzG0m-0007r4-Kb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:50:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k68GlNrf018545; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:47:23 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice01.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k68GcZG8018335 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:38:36 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k68GcYfY013981 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k68GcXNB011604 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 812AB60B88A; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:17:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 12:17:31 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Guidance requested for setting up ndiswrapper wireless under Gentoo Message-ID: <20060708161731.GB4860@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <5bdc1c8b0607061756i22095bat1fefd94549497558@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0607062018q798feb7bw45e74f606e8815a5@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0607062018q798feb7bw45e74f606e8815a5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k68GlNrw018545 X-Archives-Salt: fe5431ba-1c30-4544-b313-3d965d2a3734 X-Archives-Hash: 01c3388b1bd0059cfde023ded422f390 On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:18:39PM -0700, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squaw= ked: > 4) I emerged wpa_supplicant based on info here that says > wpa_supplicant can be used with ndiswrapper: >=20 > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/WPA >=20 > 5) When I emerged wpa_supplicant it said I needed to create a config > file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and gave a path to an > example, so I've extracted the example file and copied it to the > prescribed location. However the Gentoo pages say the right location > is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Which location is correct? I have mine in /etc/wpa_cupplicant.conf, and it works for me there.=20 =20 > 6) it's so deep in examples I'm currently not clear how to modify it > or even why I'm using it. What is a wpa_supplicant and why does one > use it? When I first installed it, it was the only way to get WPA wireless. And it allows a much simpler way to manage the three different wireless networks that I would be using (I used to have to switch config files for the wlan device based on which building I was in...) I am sure there are other reasons, but I don't know any of them of the top of my head. Perhaps you should visit the website for wpa_supplicant to find out? > At this point I'm pretty lost. I'm guess I'm making some headway > with ndiswrapper being that it's loaded not complaining too much, but > none of my iwconfig commands seem to change its state so far. I.e. - I > tell it an essid but it doesn't show that it changed the essid: >=20 > I think that if someone can get me clued in about wpa's and how to > configure for real network I'll likely get there pretty quickly from > here. Look again at the example file for wpa_supplicant. The first half you most likely won't need to change... there's one option in it that might be important for NDIS users, so you might just want to search for NDIS in the comments and see if that applies to you.=20 Then you can just scroll all the way to bottom, pick out an example network-block configuration that most closely resembles the one you have, and modify it to suit yourself. The configuration commands are pretty self-explanatory, and if you are confused, croll up a page or two, and you'll find the documentation for the commands.=20 W --=20 fornicate people, fornicate! ~Guillem Peir=F3 Noguer of Spain. On the country's negative populatio= n growth Sortir en Pantoufles: up 28 days, 17:12 --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list