Hello,
I managed to intall madwifi-ng, wpa_supplicant and rebuild the
kernel with cryto, so far.
The hardware in this protable is:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01
wifi0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-18-4D-4C-0C-9B-7B-B6-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:199
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Memory:faa80000-faa90000
My question is there a gui to manage the wireless
connection and should I add an iptables script to secure
the machine when accessing variouls networks with 802.11?
Also, does any gui manage/control the dhcp handshaking that
occurs at various location, which is the same gui that monitors/manages
the wireless connect and firewall(iptables)? possibility
would be a wireless (static) ip at site where access occurs frequently
in lieu of dhcp. Is that a gui that one can use to manages all of the
various common configuration choices, or is it a roll_your_own
type of management for 802.11 type devices.
Googling does not produce much:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Wireless
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ar5212
that is specifically related to managing and using the wireless interface.
James
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