> Hey guys > > I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless > i have folowed all the documentation and read and folowed tutorials on > gentoo wiki and also i have folowed the /net.examples and wireless.examples > but it keeps giving me errors when i want to start init.d/net.wlan0 > my question is: what should a working /etc/init.d/net look like if I want to > connect to dhcp enabled open wireless dslmodem/router ?
I've heard great things about wicd, but I never managed to get it work. NetworkManager worked out-of-the-box for me once I had the correct drivers (now in the kernels by default). I think wicd is nicer, but NetworkManager will work, and the nm-applet has not failed me to connect to any wireless networks that were either open or that I had the passwords for. The disadvantage of NM compared to wicd is it won't work without X. The advantage is it will take care of the conf.d/net ~daid