Wireless configuration and startup - The Gentoo way

duhblow7 · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 37

hi uberlord,

first off...great script, keep up the good work!!

i'm able to use the script when i don't turn on MAC filtering or WEP on my AP, but i would like some type of security. when i connect to my AP without WEP and MAC filtering, ssid = "TRON", it shows this:

UberLord · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:

duhblow7 · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 37

if a lot of people have reported this, i bet it's caused by using 'hacked' firmware for the linksys routers. the most common firmware hacks for the linksys WRT54G 802.11b/g cable/dls router is called Samadhi2 and the linksys WAP54G access point is called Freya.

duhblow7 · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 37

i tried the change you suggested. i still get an error:

UberLord · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

UberLord · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 10:13 pm Post subject:

duhblow7 · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 37

i was trying with the s: and without it.

funny thing was when i was able to get my AP's MAC address and what seemed like i connected successfully with WEP i had it with the s:. Go figure. I'll keep my eye out for your updates.

oo7

UberLord · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:32 am Post subject:

hollowsoul · n00b Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 31

Trying to set a Prism Duette in Master mode,
But complains, that eth5 doesnt support setting essid but i can set it with iwconfig??

UberLord · Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 11:36 am Post subject:

bjchamb · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 17

Is there any way that I can have the script load the appropriate modules when I bring the interface up (and ideally unload them when I bring the interface down)? The reason I need this is because if the module loaded at boot time (for some reason) iwconfig fails to detect it. But if it is inserted after booting it works fine.

UberLord · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject: Re: Loading Modules

jrmfe · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Hey hello, sorry my bad english.

Thats a awesome script you made, congratulations!

Anyway, i have a sugestion you could implement and i'm almost sure more people would use it.

How about... a new config option:
lastscript_ESSID - for some ESSID, it would run a user made script or a shell command, but just when the interface is finally sucessfull configurated. The ideia is to allow post configuration after the interface is ready.

Ex: I would use like: lastscript_WiFi_IST="pptp-command start WiFi_IST"

I think is very usefull to start VPN client services and stuff like that.

Thanks for your time and pacience!

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UberLord · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

You can use the postup() function in /etc/conf.d/net for that.
A global variable called ESSID is set when wireless config has been successful - so you can test against that.
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UberLord · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCMENT

wireless config is now in portage in the sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.0 package
See the 1st post in this thread for installation instructions

Fixes - numerous

Changes
nameserver_ESSID="192.168.0.1" has been depreciated in favour of
nameservers_ESSID=( "192.168.0.1" "192.168.0.2" )
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Use dhcpcd-ui (GTK+/Qt) as your System Tray Network tool

Sudrien · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 12:22 am Post subject:

Launched warning-free after an

echo "ifconfig_wlan0=( \" dhcp \")" >> /etc/conf.d/net
(well, ifconfig_eth1 in my case)

This is good.

in a related note, the new base layout also includes an error related to "dm-crypt" - which I haven't figured out how to stop yet.

-Sud.

iverson0881 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 285 Location: CA

New baselayout stuff working great here and loving it =)

I'm not getting any of those errors from the above post when running /etc/init.d/net.ath0 restart. I'll have to see if its different (it shouldn't be) whenever i feel like rebooting.

Thanks UberLord =) and the kind Gentoo devs =)

jrmfe · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Hey, hello

UberLord · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:

nevil · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 11

I'm having problems getting it to work with pump. I don't receive an IP address.
My config file looks like this
------
retries 3
device eth0 {
}

device wlan0 {
nodns
nogateway
}
------

Installed udhcp and it worked instantly.

UberLord · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject: Re: Problem working with pump

Sudrien · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

jrmfe · n00b Joined: 16 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

iverson0881 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 285 Location: CA

sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 449 Location: Saitama, JP

Thanks to Uberlord for the awesome script. However, I'm having problems getting two encryptions keys working. In the setup for my access point (a gentoo machine running hostap) I have: