How do you go about enabling wireless networking?

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orochidp
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How do you go about enabling wireless networking?

Post by orochidp »

OK, so far, I ran magic until it was out of updates.
I installed the driver for the device and hotplug recognizes it, applies the driver, and sets it as wlan0.

dmesg gets this:

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hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1.1, assigned address 6
usbdfu.c: Downloading firmware for USB device 6...
at76c503.c: $Id: at76c503.c,v 1.35 2003/07/30 06:31:51 jal2 Exp $ compiled Feb 27 2005 02:42:11
at76c503.c: firmware version 1.101.2 #84 (fcs_len 4)
at76c503.c: device's MAC 00:09:5b:a0:b4:9a, regulatory domain ETSI (Europe - (Spain+France) (id 48)
divert: allocating divert_blk for wlan0
at76c503.c: registered wlan0
ifconfig sees this:

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:F2:47:43:10
          inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1522 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1071 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:164065 (160.2 Kb)  TX bytes:152490 (148.9 Kb)
          Interrupt:4 Base address:0x5000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:400 (400.0 b)  TX bytes:400 (400.0 b)
iwconfig sees THIS:

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lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     no wireless extensions.

there is no /etc/init.d/net.wlan0
I have no experience in linux, and I have no idea what the next step is to do.
All of the guides I've read say to just configure and you're ready to go, but none of them mention anything like this happening.

I'm using a Netgear MA101 rev.b USB WiFi Access Point.
Can someone please help me with what I should do next?
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Post by iccaros »

Want to try one more live cd..
http://www.Iccaros-Linux.org
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Post by orochidp »

Let's see...
Anything I'd need to do, according to that guide, requires recompiling the kernel.
How do I do that on gentoox?
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