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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