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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

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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        Juuso Alasuutari
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