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 1NG1Ge-0006JA-SD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:18:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3806CE08BD; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0826E08BD for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9AC667FA1 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:17:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.000, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id H8LywLmEAILP for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.23]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A1E4674A7 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 31537 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Dec 2009 02:17:15 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1259806635; bh=ZyY3Zisr4AdBBxXZyQapVUxRzCm46Pzhlib81JMf0FU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=3rZCHuVihpvE0akZk2afrgLEeHpUae/cTDMh+QTCner+Re2enIVI3SSqRvb4hIpAvTiWCrJ3bGoARFWjwdLbIYYwOXb3Hbb2ZBR3xoGBlhiAnOYyBzWDrg+76bm4TOjmLnPY9jedLz8d9piqvZ9tEGtIB3wEbctVKnW02rURQaE= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Ibt060wrprj5L8m7Bljg5lNz7Q/9dykSF+VU9NYAU8Z62yEMdFSlw0fZdwb6Dhh8kvQQM9u7YNHyzmJO0Izg9twpA4UbdrRBWcGbU8tlXAReFkIYA09AQ2VSqfct4mCTqdYzq0MKfYVf9lVsrOM4eZ21OOdQdnvMt8lT99v+Fyg=; Message-ID: <541411.31506.qm@web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 3X6U3yQVM1k8UBBWlIHQUK65qVDQn9qhLRTwWVGrEmA4Lt3mrGrngesDuP5ZMbYIHmQLhsWmJZtd6jYLcD.RMF0bJuA.q6.i4M0Eai3Rqtfo3BZEiGBFWI.yDnflhGHFe6Q05dG0cYwgUmRcotE2ImKb3T7SrksEeYpWZdO72EaJEdxC.ql_wn.2QJQcSxL7DScLoO.irgYrmzeX4mfbmbLznaeT4PC7CM61ZxQ2U3Ys1gpniXyrvRFdYNP1Gm8Ke70.n4KQ.D0ydzwhHlkxHsK0836xfRh7CnOfXXRJOYOdZ.ordJc9xD.xDraVojkAu3mtZtyI3DrTdcJqwYrerE4y6TF4iM3bVzKm876CV4jG0Ko7H_YN_q1iQOFo1K.oRQiIow0N89RGvz5JrBorBzV70aBwr5Kzph7IikNds.l.xSfkXrXRrmEXqSvxxfi_nG8s4euz.AnsUMV9pe7wnYWG2oID_zABH29PzIXbOrTUCqEtnnEZK7MRTyCmYv1043wT.6w2Tqnfd15F_SFILXk6FRkwQRnSEf4BJdJ9sNZnlmJXYzFXgg-- Received: from [98.25.212.202] by web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:17:15 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/240.3 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:17:15 -0800 (PST) From: BRM Subject: [gentoo-user] Wireless... To: Users Gentoo 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: bedd1a3e-8911-4dd0-9aef-9e5806ceb780 X-Archives-Hash: bbedeca4e127f003c588a6682882e34c I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0="myWLAN" key_MYWLAN="somekey" config_MYWLAN=( "dhcp" ) preferred_APS= ( "myWLAN" ) I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a more dynamic configuration. I've tried to setup WPA supplicant but haven't been able to get it to work. My last attempt was with: modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext" wpa_timeout_wlan0=15 I also tried the iwconfig setup: modules=( "iwconfig" ) iwconfig_wlan0="mode managed" wpa_timeout_wlan0=15 Both these were based on configurations I found while researching gentoo wireless configurations: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Wireless_Networking the wpa_supplicant man page possibly suggests uses "-Dbroadcom", but the following supports "-Dwext" since I have the b43legacy driver working (firmware extracted using b43-fwcutter a while back; dmesg reports version 0x127). http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 I have both the iwconfig utilities and wpa supplicant installed. When I used wpa supplicant with either configuration it would just keep searching. Now, my wireless configuration is currently WEP; and I'd like to upgrade to WPA/WPA2 once I can get a wireless tool on the system as well. Is there anything I'm doing wrong with the configuration above? Also - what is the correct GUI for configuring connections under KDE4? I know of the WPA Supplicant GUI; and the GNOME GUI; but would like something under more directly KDE4. KNemo just puts up monitors that are pretty useless (though look pretty). TIA, Ben P.S. It seems my Linksys WRT54G v3 needs a firmware update for WPA2. So right now, I'd just like to be able to configure dynamically for my WEP network; then I'll focus on going to WPA/WPA2.