From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fxzt3-0003BT-43 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:25:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k655NN21004631; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 05:23:23 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k655I4kM008402 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2006 05:18:04 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so1927606ugd for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:18:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c3r3xDtixGVf9KgmqF/7ubI25BLS2k0lO4virSz4ZLQXAPwLR1PV4fneo7i7hceYdNQCFNnHLeDCV2BKxfLpMEOekCXcee/UNNMGxWieRmkF2NkzsYI+U8+NU8/6UA5uG0y+MWCo/INN8c4TNILwAPQOHwb/4ZI3KGQxsVpef44= Received: by 10.78.164.13 with SMTP id m13mr3167153hue; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.58.13 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:18:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7e7f5e710607042218x5a2f6cb4l65f2c5c452a0f53e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 01:18:04 -0400 From: "A. R." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Help In-Reply-To: <44AB2F4D.1060701@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44AB2F4D.1060701@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 68c93847-b09c-477b-9702-91969a124486 X-Archives-Hash: 3a9c933ccbdfbe638148b9ca3f773699 > 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 iwconfig eth1 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 If you stare long enough into an abyss, the abyss will stare back into you... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list