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[Elisamuel Resto <samuel AT dragonboricua.net>]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:28:57 +0300, Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>
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.
> 

One thing to point out is that stable-0.7 was out long ago, we're at
stable-0.12 at the moment (with 0.13 around the corner), so that line seems
outdated.

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