Greetings, I want to setup a wireless router for the first time using WPA. Here is the setup I want...
Internet---Gentoo Wireless Router---My Computer I have configured my kernel properly from what I can tell and emerged madwifi. However when I modprobe ath_pci nothing shows up. When I do ifconfig -a I get... ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:5B:80:F2:D8 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:0C:C4:A8:87 inet addr:66.11.182.5 Bcast:66.11.182.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20e:cff:fec4:a887/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:75109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:48454 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:95609829 (91.1 Mb) TX bytes:6195064 (5.9 Mb) Base address:0x9000 Memory:ec020000-ec040000 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:0C:C4:43:0F inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20e:cff:fec4:430f/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:66264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:111528 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:7189540 (6.8 Mb) TX bytes:96020126 (91.5 Mb) Base address:0x9400 Memory:ec040000-ec060000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:99775 (97.4 Kb) TX bytes:99775 (97.4 Kb) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:66.11.182.5 P-t-P:192.168.200.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1452 Metric:1 RX packets:74713 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:47995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:93641841 (89.3 Mb) TX bytes:4912135 (4.6 Mb) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-19-5B-80-F2-D8-38-80-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 However my computer doesn't show a wireless network to connect too. What do I need is to know what to add to... /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Thanks Jason -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
