Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:09:04 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've got hal and dbus masked out (pam too), so wicd and networkmanager > are out of the question. Wicd doesn't need hal, but dbus is so useful you are crippling your system by blocking it. On a multitasking system, programs need a way of

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 04:03:08PM +0100, Mick wrote > For PCs you don't typically need anything more than the default Gentoo > scripts, but for a laptop wicd, networkmanager and the like will do > exactly what you need with no perceptible overhead and the benefit of > notifications for when thing

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-13 Thread Stroller
On 13 Apr 2010, at 12:39, Walter Dnes wrote: ... I plan to have multiple config files, to cover different situations. You can have multiple networks specified in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and in /etc/conf.d/net. I think you can just specify the various SSIDs / credentials in wpa_supplican

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-13 Thread Mick
On 13 April 2010 15:44, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:39:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> >   Thanks. that keeps things sane.  Now let's start with simple stuff >> > first, manually connecting to an open access point at

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 09:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:39:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Thanks. that keeps things sane. Now let's start with simple stuff > > first, manually connecting to an open access point at the public > > library. Listed below are files /etc/co

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:39:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Thanks. that keeps things sane. Now let's start with simple stuff > first, manually connecting to an open access point at the public > library. Listed below are files /etc/conf.d/net, ~/bin/wi_open, and > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.open.

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:17:07PM +0100, Mick wrote > You probably want to look at wpa_supplicant (in particular man > wpa_gui), or any other network manager type of application would do > (wicd, network manager, wifi-radar) which allows you to enable/disable > access points for automatic connect

Re: [gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-12 Thread Mick
On 12 April 2010 08:11, Walter Dnes wrote: > Here's /etc/conf.d/net on my Gentoo netbook system... > > config_eth0="192.168.123.249 broadcast 192.168.123.255 netmask > 255.255.255.248 mtu 1452" > routes_eth0=( > "default via 192.168.123.254 metric 2" > "192.168.123.248/29 via 192.168.123.254 metr

[gentoo-user] wlan0 config questions

2010-04-12 Thread Walter Dnes
Here's /etc/conf.d/net on my Gentoo netbook system... config_eth0="192.168.123.249 broadcast 192.168.123.255 netmask 255.255.255.248 mtu 1452" routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.123.254 metric 2" "192.168.123.248/29 via 192.168.123.254 metric 0" ) The multiple routes allow eth0 to remain conne