[gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

[gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

[Nelis Botha]

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Hey guys

I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless
i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on
gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples
but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0
my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to
connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ?

any advice will be extremely welcome

Thanks

Nelis

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Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

[Fernando Antunes]

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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nelis Botha <nelis.botha@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys
>
> I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include
> wireless i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials
> on gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and
> wireless.examples but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start
> init.d/net.wlan0
> my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want
> to connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ?
>
> any advice will be extremely welcome
>
>

Hi Nelis, I'm using wicd to manager my eth0 and wlan0.

My /etc/conf.d/net has notinhg but dns_domain=XXXX

In /etc/init.d I only have net.lo and my /etc/conf.d/rc has
RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth0 !net.wlan0".

Before using wicd, I had started manually my wlan0 using ifconfig , iwconfig
and dhcpcd.

This configuration works fine for my laptop.




> Thanks
>
> Nelis
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

[daid kahl]

> Hey guys
>
> I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless
> i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on
> gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples
> but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0
> my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to
> connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ?

I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it
work.  NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the
correct drivers (now in the kernels by default).

I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet
has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either
open or that I had the passwords for.  The disadvantage of NM compared
to wicd is it won't work without X.  The advantage is it will take
care of the conf.d/net

~daid

Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

[Dominic Kexel]

I can recommend wicd, it's a nice and easy way to handle your wireless-setup and can be run either with a gui or curses.


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900
daid kahl <daidxor@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Hey guys
> >
> > I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless
> > i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on
> > gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples
> > but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0
> > my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to
> > connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ?
> 
> I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it
> work.  NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the
> correct drivers (now in the kernels by default).
> 
> I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet
> has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either
> open or that I had the passwords for.  The disadvantage of NM compared
> to wicd is it won't work without X.  The advantage is it will take
> care of the conf.d/net
> 
> ~daid


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Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900, daid kahl wrote:

> I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet
> has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either
> open or that I had the passwords for.  The disadvantage of NM compared
> to wicd is it won't work without X.  The advantage is it will take
> care of the conf.d/net

Wicd doesn't need anything in conf.d/net.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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