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 1OlUyL-00073D-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50B78E0A97; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33063E0A97 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws15 with SMTP id 15so6093401vws.40 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:49:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=I5sVfrCnOAXBLq0NtMLnU4ntIFAg5L6DxAPfvj2YD3M=; b=S2yXY7BgsC1GyDBH73l2/UsU/LwYl1HSR3NaXeO03ox/Bsvq3KW+xFtUdUDh2Ag0Gb kMTnI8qCw6CrxPjzFL2ePZ2qndXffC9RuoXALO1h3nji9gYMpL1zA+2M//fKEDML9VY6 YlM4Rw+m6ui42PHEbSEi24FcRl5m5XfO+9GTw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=kaEkX9FWBP//BQvBbWZxMOfcamikgydEBqO+Qi5XpY3VfbtRd2uz36eUWxSVEcJLyK 95CmduyfLl5SSi/zzR4XZwUUujCfOGULl9VPRxNQLL9zHJAnhmEJTTs8ueqjEzH38X2P NSpEXyhiCTPGtq1SOGPkrfrKiwYHW4XDRZHfs= Received: by 10.220.80.102 with SMTP id s38mr4356766vck.279.1282085365860; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.11] (bas1-hamilton02-1176396364.dsl.bell.ca [70.30.98.76]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u2sm109153vcr.32.2010.08.17.15.49.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C6B11F3.4030509@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:23 +0000 From: CJoeB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless References: <4C69E9A3.6020801@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dc6ec700-7ee2-4c9a-b0a2-97e5f9ef9cb6 X-Archives-Hash: b63da1617c6453dfaed012d6017a5b4a On 08/17/10 08:36, David Abbott wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. > I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts > depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have the file to > edit [1] will change. > [0] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wicd > [1] http://gentoo-pr.org/node/17 More than anything, I am acknowledging this response. My understanding is that Wicd requires wpa-supplicant. I don't know that I'm ready to try to tackle the setup of wpa-supplicant - it's supposed to be harder (it looks harder from what I have read) to configure than wireless-tools and I'm not having very much success with that and the iwl3945 driver built into the kernel. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org