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Well after a bit of reading and experimentation, I got the linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre25 installed in Gentoox (Home 3.1). I have a Microsoft MN-510 that has been confirmed to work with the linux-wlan-ng package.

So far, I've been able to get an IP address on the wireless adaptor, and I can ping it, and it can ping any device on my local network.

However, I can't get it to connect to anything outside my local network. If I try to ping anything outside my network, or connect to the intenet with gaim or mozilla firefox, it doesn't work. When I try to ping outside IP's, it says

ping: unknown host http://www.yahoo.com

This is when I put in my ISP's DNS servers in the /etc/resolv.conf

or

connect: network unreachable

This is when I put my router's IP address (My router is a Microsoft MN-500 btw) in the /etc/resolv.conf

Anyone know how I would go about solving this problem? I'm totally clueless as to what could be preventing it from reaching outside networks.

well NVM, I got it workin just fine. Now I just need help making a simple script to get it to load the drivers and configure it at boot up. How would I go about doing that? Here is what I have so far:
What would I do to make it a simple executable script (like batch files in windows)

I've never set up wlan before, but there do seem to be a couple wlan config files. Look at

clpalmer wrote:I've never set up wlan before, but there do seem to be a couple wlan config files. Look at

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/etc/conf.d/wlan.conf
/etc/conf.d/wlancfg-DEFAULT
/etc/init.d/wlan

Thanks, but I already got the networking part of it figured out, I just need to make a simple script that I can execute whenever I want to start the wireless network connection, or a script that I can have run at bootup.

I dunno if you already tried this, but try the programs hotplug and coldplug.

You can get them both with "emerge".
Hotplug detects new devices and loads the drivers, Coldplug configures USB devices found during bootup.

orochidp wrote:I dunno if you already tried this, but try the programs hotplug and coldplug.

You can get them both with "emerge".
Hotplug detects new devices and loads the drivers, Coldplug configures USB devices found during bootup.

Thanks, I already edited the rc script that came with the drivers (so I just have to run it manually whenever I want to connect wirelessly), but I wasn't able to add it to the bootup sequence (using rc-update add) because of the parameters on it.

When I try to do
It gives me an error saying that wlan has already been added, and that it can't find start. Does anyone know how I'd go about adding an rc script that has parameters with it?

If not, I'll just try Hotplug and Coldplug as suggested by orochidp. Thanks.