Wireless setup

riven · 27 Apr 2006 at 19:13

Ah! Wireless is crazily complicated.

I've got my pcmcia card in, the driver works, iwconfig displays the interface as wlan0, which is all good.

However I can't figureout how the hell to start the interface. I'm trying to use wpa_supplicant, I've had a fiddle with the config. Problem is there is no net.wlan0 or similar runscript.

Running gentoo of course.

Any ideas?

Una · 27 Apr 2006 at 22:52

Just configure it using iwconfig...

man iwconfig..

Usuauly you just need to set the essid and then if your running dhcp get it to probe that interface.

deano · 28 Apr 2006 at 07:42

Hi

you may find this link useful:-

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup

cheers
Deano

chriscpritchard · 28 Apr 2006 at 08:16

riven said:
Ah! Wireless is crazily complicated.

I've got my pcmcia card in, the driver works, iwconfig displays the interface as wlan0, which is all good.

However I can't figureout how the hell to start the interface. I'm trying to use wpa_supplicant, I've had a fiddle with the config. Problem is there is no net.wlan0 or similar runscript.

Running gentoo of course.

Any ideas?

ln -sf /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 && /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start

FirebarUK · 28 Apr 2006 at 10:41

Doesn't it create an interface you can bring up with ifup too? My machines seem to do that, on some I can ifup wlan0 or ifup eth1 (corresponding interface).

:confused:

riven · 28 Apr 2006 at 12:00

brainiac ghost said:
ln -sf /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 && /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start

Ok that's worked nicely. Now I have to configure it which I think may be a pain. It uses the acx111 chipset, which there is a driver for, but it doesn't support wpa, and the uni network requires wpa support. So I've now started messing about with ndiswrapper... great fun! You'll probably hear back from me soon!