Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help

["A. R." <feoymalo@gmail.com>]

> So, my question is, once I install ndiswrapper and the driver, do I then
> follow the wiki for either wireless-tools or (preferred)
> wpa-supplicant?  Is there anything else I have to do or install?
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>

Hello,

May I suggest that you try first with wireless-tools?


Things you need to know:
1. The interface id of the wireless card (eth0, eth1, wlan0 etc...)
2. The "essid" of the wireless access point you are connecting to.
3. The encryption key (if any) for wireless access (WEP)

Once you have those you can run the following commands (after you have
emerged wireless-tools) Using eth1 as the interface for example:

iwconfig eth1 essid <the essid of the access point>
iwconfig eth1 key <the encryption key>
dhcpcd eth1

If this works, then depending on how you want to configure your box
you may want to set all this configuration in the file
/etc/conf.d/wireless (BTW, please take a look at the file
/etc/conf.d/wireless.example, it does have very good comments that
would make this very understandable), or you may want to go for
wpa_supplicant.

HTH

- AR


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