From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NARVq-0003iF-3U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:06:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 527ECE09BA; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f47.google.com (mail-pw0-f47.google.com [209.85.160.47]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2822AE09BA for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi9 with SMTP id 9so100103pwi.26 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:06:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=9FMyqiPjyBlWf8j7flAYy9ZeJLZ9mAwrj7tmfHFINZ0=; b=wq6FixUfXTNwGHtR6MB2APwKR41HC7fSZ3DIvY6KbwxiTGorBKljocmqVs/vFO5Pg6 EOsn1Cq/941Feq8SXC/gLqd72Zz6jLSmwHPjfKG0VZd79sUukA3q5Da7/Il+yxc2aJ5E lOHlpeRDt+tYclhvCuYKwFDPraOoYPI41Eb9A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=slCIEGjZVL4s0R6tqZudXaqaRA6KwN84/+PJn3KYlIcY2xyifaYYiFrE8dVTPa/OL1 MrsCKOWOUBq9GeSHHc+Gu4epDKr5mkcJBA6g2BvLqmwJ7pMDn1UjthVyMtEOR071+jVf TRHAiR4Vk3DbNGzy5tAPx2J9htpOTXZC/MU5o= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.143.20.39 with SMTP id x39mr966098wfi.213.1258477560434; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:06:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900 Message-ID: <3ac129340911170906k532260bdt97f64f195a3814e3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools From: daid kahl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: c1234ea5-87a7-41d1-9524-0cdd47e4908d X-Archives-Hash: f3105ea6c9e4613c6ae61bdedd86f8f6 > 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