On Tuesday 27 November 2012 11:09:33 Dave wrote:
> I only have WiFi with WEP encryption here, can the WICD pkg and DHCP
> alone handle this connect?
Good morning Dave,
Well, as I told you yesterday, yes. From my notes taken during build:
You will need
Wireless Tools, BLFS Book § 15
wpa_supplicant BLFS Book § 15
Supplicant is intended to handle WPA encryptions. However, it
understands
also other protocols, like WEP. See the informations in wikipedia,
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant
dhcpcd BLFS Book § 14
Wireless Drivers: depending on your laptop. I have a thinkpad with iwl3945
card. Depending on your kernel, you need to activate the intree driver
directly, in my case iwlwifi, www.intellinuxwireless.org.
Microcode Images. (http://intellinuxwireless.org )
Py2cairo, BLFS Book § 13, needed by PyGTK
PyGObject BLFS Book $ 13
PyGTK, BLFS Book § 13 needed by WICD
You should configure /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, see wikipedia link above.
network={
ssid="mywireless_ssid"
psk="secretpassphrase"
# Additional parameters (proto, key_mgmt, etc.)
proto=WEP WPA
}
I wrote a little script "wlan0_Home", which I placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d, that
calls supplicant and dhcpcd:
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# /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan0_Home
/usr/local/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -Dwext
/sbin/dhcpcd wlan0
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and finally, you write the scripts
/etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.wlan0:
---------------
ONBOOT="no"
IFACE="wlan0"
SERVICE="dhcpcd"
DHCP_START="wlan0 -t 20"
DHCP_STOP="-k "
----------------
and
/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.wlan0/dhclient:
----------------
ONBOOT="no"
SERVICE="dhclient"
DHCP_START="wlan0 -t 20"
DHCP_STOP="-k "
# Set PRINTIP="yes" to have the script print
# the DHCP assigned IP address
PRINTIP="no"
# Set PRINTALL="yes" to print the DHCP assigned values for
# IP, SM, DG, and 1st NS. This requires PRINTIP="yes".
PRINTALL="no"
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ONBOOT="no" is needed to be able to start WICD
The last two scripts taken, slighty modifyed, from the BLFS Book.
I hope these notes will help you in some way to put your wifi connection to
work. The business is not as difficult as it may seem. Good luck !
Edgar
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