Re: [sheflug] Gentoo wireless laptop

[Peter Humphrey <prh [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:00, Wonkey Donkey wrote:

> FYI, when I set mine up, I started from the ground up, as in reset the
> access point to its default settings. No security, no mac filtering and
> gave it the Station ID that I wanted.

Yes, I'm doing the same of course. I have three profiles set on the WAP: one 
each with WPA, WEP and no encryption. I'm using that last one to get to 
understand what's going on.

> Once that had connected, using DHCP, I then set the mac address
> filtering, then set the security using WPA2 and added the shared key to
> the network config file.
>
> After all that was set, I then made the Station ID invisible.

Exactly my plan too.

> The guide I followed for the client config is here:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4

That's familiar to me too :-)

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

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