WLan USB Stick?

sham · Post by **sham** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:07 pm

Hi,
could somebody say me which wlan stick works witch gentoox?

sham

orochi · Post by **orochi** » Sun May 08, 2005 7:28 pm

depends on what usb stick we are talking about

checkout ndiswrapper, ive successfully have set it up with a Netgear WG121 card, although transfer speeds will be better on lan by far

search is your friend

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=in ... +on+gentoo

sham · Post by **sham** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:51 am

hi,
i want usually an usb stick, because they are cheaper than networking modules like yours one. did you know if there is support for some usb wlan sticks? use they all a common technology and the same drivers or are they different?

sham

orochi · Post by **orochi** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:20 pm

ndiswrapper is free, gentoox supports usb wifi devices yes, however you will need to recompile the kernel to support wifi, and have a module to work with your device.

It isnt going to be a plug n play type of setup, i suggest you checkout either your device mfg to see if they have a linux src drivers or checkout http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Trevante · Post by **Trevante** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:25 pm

I have a Microsoft MN-510 USB adaptor (it's not a stick though) working with the linux-wlan-ng drivers. I can't get WEP to work, but apart from that, it works just fine (if you do decide to use the linux-wlan-ng drivers, you may have to use dhcpcd to get an IP for your wireless adaptor, I couldn't get ifconfig to give me an internet connection, although local connectivity was fine).

Here is a list of wifi adaptors that work with the linux-wlan-ng drivers. The Dlink DWL-122 is in stick form if you really want one you can put in your pocket.

orochi · Post by **orochi** » Mon May 09, 2005 10:35 pm

you might have to run iwconfig to set your accesspoint if your going to use static ip, if you have /etc/conf.d/net set with your static ip, and the gateway at the bottom set to the correct device it should work out fine, i had a Netgear WG121 setup with static ip it worked great

if you want it to iwconfig you to an access point try doing something like this

cp /net/init.d/net.eth0 /net/init.d/net.{device}
pico -w /net/init.d/net.{device}

and add your "iwconfig" command on the line just after "start() {" thats what i had to do for my wifi to work for every boot

dont forget to rc-update add net.wlan0 default (perhaps even remove net.eth0 too