[SM-Discuss] Wireless network
Craig Dyke
grail69 at amnet.net.au
Wed Aug 22 11:46:35 EDT 2007
Hi Juuso
I followed the HowTo but this only changed step 2 below to now use:
telinit run wpa_supplicant start
Now I can use a script to do this if I have to. Just wondering if the
existing scripts have a way to do this?
Cheers
Craig
Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> On Monday 13 August 2007 13:54:13 Craig Dyke wrote:
>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I am relatively new to setting up a wireless connection and have hit a snag
>> as to how to do it the SourceMage way.
>>
>> I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 which uses the ipw3945 driver.
>>
>> Currently I am doing the following steps to get my access to work:
>>
>> 1. modprobe ipw3945 (this has been cast and installed)
>> 2. wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -ieth2 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant
>> 3. dhcpd eth2
>>
>> Now while I am happy that this works, I wanted to know what the secret
>> is to getting
>> either netconf or wpa_supplicant scripts to do this for me (or is some
>> combination of the
>> 2 are required, what that would be)
>>
>> I would appreciate if someone would point me in the right direction :)
>>
>
> Hi! You may find this helpful: http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Wireless_Howto
>
> Please tell me if you find flaws of any kind in the document, I'll update it
> accordingly.
>
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