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i'm fairly new to linux and I am wondering about how to get wireless to work. I have gentoo linux and madwifi has been emerged. I don't understand what I'm supposed to do next. I I did have ath0 up at one point, but don't remember the command I used to get it and it for some reason isn't in bash history. I still didn't know what to do with the interface once I had it up. It didn't have any dhcp info or anything.
Here's what I got.
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
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Distribution: SuSe 10.2
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su
root
(passwrd)
ifup ath0
I don't know gentoo, so i don't know what you have as far as admin tools, but there should be one that lets you configure this, as well as Knetworkmanager (what i use) makes it as simple as a start/stop button and configuration.
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Originally Posted by Subtrakt
yeah that's not workin, thanks anyway.
you need to do it as root. as user you get the 'command not found'. if you have iwconfig and iwlist you have wirelestools installed, so ifup/ifdown is there.
#su
#root
#(password)
$ifup ath0
try looking at (at a terminal) #man ifup
that gives some help.. gotta love the 'man'
The command for Linux and for Gentoo is 'ifconfig ath0 up' to bring up a network device but only if the require module is loaded. Suse is proprietary that does not use the same commands as a normal Linux setup.
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