Re: wireless - where to start?
Considering all I've read about setting up wireless on GNU/Linux, I was
expecting some pain. This was super easy! At least, it was after being
pointed in the right direction by you folks.
I started with Matej's advice: lspci, which required installing the
pciutils package. This revealed that I was using and Atheros card, and
google revealed that MadWifi was the appropriate driver. So I went to
the MadWifi website and found out that everything I needed was available
in debian nonfree. I followed the directions on the MadWifi page,
installed everything I need with aptitude (including module assistant
and all the suggests from madwifi-sources and madwifi-tools), worked
through the newbie help, and here I am not an hour later with a working
wireless setup, WEP encrypted no less!
Thanks for your help!
On a less optimistic note, I see that I have now officially tainted my
kernel with heathen code. Could I get this setup running without
compromising my virtue (such as it was)?
Cheers,
Tyler
shahim essaid.com wrote:
> Tyler Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a little confused by the available how-to's etc. regarding getting
>> wireless working on my laptop. There is a fair bit of material
>> available, but much of it is old and/or contradictory. If someone could
>> help point me towards a good reliable source to get going that would be
>> great.
>>
>> I'm using:
>> Debian Etch, freshly installed and upgraded
>> Linksys model no. WPC55AG notebook adapter card
>> Toshiba Satellite 2410 laptop (I have to wait for my thinkpad...)
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tyler
>>
> I just went through this the other day for the first time. I needed a
> driver (madwifi), wireless-tools, and wpa-supplicant (for WPA). I am
> running Sarge and some of these packages have to be up to date so I got
> them from backports.org. I am not sure if you really need ifplugd but it
> helps configure/deconfigure your interfaces when they appear and disappear.
>
> I can't remember all the details but I think that hotplug will get your
> device installed and then ifup/ifdown will have scripts added by the
> above packages to get your card working correctly. I put all the
> settings for wireless-tools and wpa-supplicant in
> /etc/network/interfaces and the scripts for those packages used that
> information to setup the card when it is plugged in.
>
> This was the first time I did this but it worked for me. You need a
> driver, wireless tools and possibly other packages if you need
> encryption. I read most of the documents (man pages, docs, and their
> websites) for these packages to understand how they all work together
> and I would recommend you do the same otherwise you might waste many
> hours trying different settings without understanding what is going on.
> I did that first and it didn't work. :-)
>
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ ( I think WEP is
> included in the wireless tools)
>
> http://madwifi.org/
>
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/
>
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