Wireless configuration and startup - The Gentoo way

[markfl]

When you say it will be in portage in another form what do you mean?

USE="wireless" emerge baselayout?

Mark
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[UberLord]

@epohs - my script appears to be working flawlessly.

However, your chipset/driver/ndiswrapper are not. There was a user a few pages back who used the broadcom drivers that came on the CD instead of the newest ones and it started working.

Try mixing ndiswrapper and broadcom driver versions around.
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[BloodyNewbie]

@Uberlord: Now I put away the line essid_ath0="any" and receive:

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@Uberlord: I didn't say, madwifi couldn't scan! It can, I wrote that. Now I put away the line essid_ath0="any" and receive:

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[BloodyNewbie]

do you now believe me?

* net-wireless/madwifi-cvs
Latest version available: 0.3
Latest version installed: 0.3
Size of downloaded files: 1 kB
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/
Description: Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi - CVS
License: GPL-2

* net-wireless/madwifi-driver
Latest version available: 0.1_pre20040824-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 1,693 kB
Homepage: http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/
Description: Wireless driver for Atheros chipset a/b/g cards
License: GPL-2
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[BloodyNewbie]

thanks to great help by Uberlord I could solve my problem, I documented it here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=218199
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[BlaZoR]

Hi!
I'm having one problem with your wireless script (which is really good!! ),
I have a Netgear WG311T Wireless Card (with Atheros AR5212) and a Netgear WG624 Wireless Router, I can connect to the router, no problem, but he can't get a IP per DHCP, don't know why. When I try to manually add a IP I can't ping to the router or other things on LAN. I tried it with WEP and without, but no difference
any ideas?

BlaZoR

[ToddWest]

[dyqik]

I've had problems getting the WEP key to be accepted in the ipw2200 windows drivers with ndiswrapper 0.9 The drivers often gave errors on the lines of "operation not supported" or "invalid parameters" when setting the WEP key or the ESSID. I've not tried with ndiswrapper 0.10, as I've got everything to work with the native linux drivers from http://ipw2200.sf.net/.

My howto (now out of date, only 12 hours after I finished the first draft ) on how to get the native drivers to work is at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=217688. Although they don't quite work correctly with the wireless-config out of the box yet, it is possible to get it all to work together for a standard open WEP network.

[PEETIE]

when i use the line to ebuild wireless-config-0.5.5.ebuild i get an error that states this

aux_get() error; aborting.

How do i fix this?

[navert]

To start, thanks for the neat tool. I emerged it and it worked fine practically right out of the box on my college wireless network (since I could connect through wired there). I then brought my laptop planning on it being easy here. Boy was I wrong. My wireless card succesfully finds the two APs that are available from my housing manager. iwlist wlan0 scan shows this:
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:06:25:F0:78:4F
ESSID:"Tanner 7"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.437GHz
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-65 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Cell 02 - Address: 00:04:5A:E8:2C:63
ESSID:"Tanner"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Managed
Frequency:2.462GHz
Quality:0/100 Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rate:1Mb/s
Bit Rate:2Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5Mb/s
Bit Rate:11Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
running net.wlan0 start successfully finds the ap but hangs up an trying to get the ip address. iwconfig wlan0 shows this after running net.wlan0 start:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Tanner 7"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: 00:06:25:F0:78:4F
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-66 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:1 Invalid misc:52182 Missed beacon:0

WEP is not enabled on the access point. I can connect fine when I boot up windows. I know the wireless card and wireless-config work correctly because I can access the net at my college.

I have run ethereal and noticed that when I create a static ip and set up my own routes, I am not hearing the ap. Meaning, I am pinging the ap (address 192.168.1.1) and in ethereal it is showing that the ap is hearing me and knows who I am. The ap is even responding, yet I seem to not be receiving anything from the ap since the ping just times out. Here is a print out of just one ping.
No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
1 0.000000 192.168.1.140 Broadcast ARP Who has 192.168.1.1? Tell 192.168.1.140

Frame 1 (42 bytes on wire, 42 bytes captured)
Arrival Time: Sep 1, 2004 17:29:49.714375000
Time delta from previous packet: 0.000000000 seconds
Time since reference or first frame: 0.000000000 seconds
Frame Number: 1
Packet Length: 42 bytes
Capture Length: 42 bytes
Ethernet II, Src: 00:0c:41:2c:58:3c, Dst: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Destination: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (Broadcast)
Source: 00:0c:41:2c:58:3c (192.168.1.140)
Type: ARP (0x0806)
Address Resolution Protocol (request)
Hardware type: Ethernet (0x0001)
Protocol type: IP (0x0800)
Hardware size: 6
Protocol size: 4
Opcode: request (0x0001)
Sender MAC address: 00:0c:41:2c:58:3c (192.168.1.140)
Sender IP address: 192.168.1.140 (192.168.1.140)
Target MAC address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 (00:00:00_00:00:00)
Target IP address: 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)

No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
2 0.001473 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.140 ARP 192.168.1.1 is at 00:06:25:f0:78:4f

Frame 2 (50 bytes on wire, 50 bytes captured)
Arrival Time: Sep 1, 2004 17:29:49.715848000
Time delta from previous packet: 0.001473000 seconds
Time since reference or first frame: 0.001473000 seconds
Frame Number: 2
Packet Length: 50 bytes
Capture Length: 50 bytes
IEEE 802.3 Ethernet
Destination: 00:0c:41:2c:58:3c (192.168.1.140)
Source: 00:06:25:f0:78:4f (192.168.1.1)
Length: 36
Logical-Link Control
DSAP: SNAP (0xaa)
IG Bit: Individual
SSAP: SNAP (0xaa)
CR Bit: Command
Control field: U, func=UI (0x03)
000. 00.. = Command: Unnumbered Information (0x00)
.... ..11 = Frame type: Unnumbered frame (0x03)
Organization Code: Cisco IOS 9.0 Compatible (0x0000f8)
Type: ARP (0x0806)
Address Resolution Protocol (reply)
Hardware type: Ethernet (0x0001)
Protocol type: IP (0x0800)
Hardware size: 6
Protocol size: 4
Opcode: reply (0x0002)
Sender MAC address: 00:06:25:f0:78:4f (192.168.1.1)
Sender IP address: 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)
Target MAC address: 00:0c:41:2c:58:3c (192.168.1.140)
Target IP address: 192.168.1.140 (192.168.1.140)

Now, my card is not getting the reply.

I hope you guys can help. My card is a WPC54G and I am using ndiswrapper with the updated driver from linksys.

Thanks

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[PEETIE]

Ok i used PORTDIR_OVERLAY and it successfully did an ebuild but then when i tried to emerge it i get this message:

emerge net-wireless/wireless-config-0.5.5
Calculating dependencies
!!! Problem in net-wireless/wireless-config-0.5.5 dependencies.
!!! "Specific key requires an operator (net-wireless/wireless-config-0.5.5) (try adding an '=')"

What should i do now?

[Jeremy_Z]

Well, adding an '=' :

emerge =net-wireless/wireless-config-0.5.5
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