Wireless Problems ???

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Hi thought i would give the old Gentoo Wirless a try for once.
I seem to be having problems with my Belkin Wirless USB Stick.

I am using the 2008 minimal cd to install gentoo onto a old laptop.
I pretty sure gentoo has picked up the wifi stick as i seem to now have eth0 and eth1 and my usb stick is flashing for signal.

I want to get it connected to my router so i get a working IP address because atm i seem to be getting.
196.254.39.41

I have no idea about Gentoo wirless at all and im really not very good with wirless in General.
Could someone help me at all ?

I have logged into my router to check out some settings.

My wifi is using the SSID - The Penthouse
The Channel is set to - Auto
And the type of encrption im using is - WPA-PSK [TKIP]

How would i go about getting my card connected to the network properly.

Thanks

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject:

gentoo_newguy,

The Gentoo Handbook has a section for you.
Choose the handbook for your arch, as its possible there are arch dependent differences.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Hey have been using that to work with it.

I set the SSID and that but when it ask me about the encryption type i type my key in and i just get that funny ip address.

Im usless at wirless it is one of the things in gentoo i have never been able to do.
I also tried to use the stick on fedora machine and it picked the usb stick up fine i just coudlnt get it to connect to my router.

Could u also tell me which one of these i should be using ???

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

gentoo_newguy,

That is for wEP encription, not

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Thanks for ur reply.

So do i need to emerge this package yes ?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 11:03 pm Post subject:

gentoo_newguy,

You need to emerge that package then set it up
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Thank u for ur help.
I will get back to you with the results.
I also have one other quesiton about wireless.
Say i have this encryption that im using at home but go somewhere that has a diffrent type of encryption.
What would i do then.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:

gentoo_newguy,

It depends on what you mean by 'type'.

You can associate different keys with different ESSIDs and the starup sequence will try tham in the order you want. Thats within WEP of wireless supplicant. I don't know how you try WEP if wireless-supplicant fails. That not to say you can't do it.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Hi man thanks for everyting cause i have never had a reply on the wirless.

I could not get Gentoo to work with the belkin stick at the begging of the install so i did the install thru ethernet on my laptop.
I now have a working Gentoo system on my laptop but i still need to get the wireless working.
Gentoo picked up my USB stick with the minimal cd at the begging.
Now Gentoo is installed i dont think the wireless stick is even compiled into my kernel.

I need to get this working and try using the advice you gave me yesterday again.
I have made another post about my wireless stick and asking if anyone could help me compile it into my kernel as i have been through the kernel and i cant see what im looking for.
Hopefully if i can get it to pick it up i can try getting myself connected to my router again.

What i ment by my last post was for instances if i do get it connected to my home router which uses the wpa encryption and everything does work and then i go to the bar that i work in and what to use the wifi there which uses WEP encryption would i neeed to go through a whole new process setting up the wifi.

This is really getting to me as i think wifi is one of the things i have struggled with most on Gentoo and its one of the things which i need to use most.

Sorry if im a pain but im finding it actually quite hard to understand.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject:

gentoo_newguy,

Lets start at the beginning then.

Show me your

gentoo_newguy · Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2006 Posts: 539

Ok thanks im at work and i really appricate this.
soon as i get home I will post the output.
I document eveything as well so once i have been helped i will make it easier for eveyone esle .
Thanks i really am greatfull.

I will get the ouputs as soon as im home.