Re: [gentoo-user] setting up wireless on gentoo using wireless-tools

2009-11-17 Thread Dominic Kexel
I can recommend wicd, it's a nice and easy way to handle your wireless-setup and can be run either with a gui or curses. On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:00 +0900 daid kahl wrote: > > Hey guys > > > > I'm Strugling to set up wireless, have recompiled kernel to include wireless > > i have folowed all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What annoys you?

2009-04-04 Thread Dominic Kexel
o >Linux start with Gentoo and also support his/her unwillingness to >RTFM. > > Gentoo is not for people, which want to be washed, but not to get wet! > > Sebastian > > -- > " Religion ist das Opium des Volkes. " Karl Marx > > s...@sti@N GÜNTHER mailto:sam...@guenther-roetgen.de > -- Dominic Kexel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-02-04 Thread Dominic Kexel
st. You have to do something like: ath=wlan0 iwconfig $ath channel 11 iwconfig $ath essid 'my_essid' iwconfig $ath ap 05:1B:4F:22:XX:XX iwconfig $ath key mysecretkey open -- Dominic Kexel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-30 Thread Dominic Kexel
7; creates a new device (mon0 or phy0 or something), and 'airmon-ng stop wlan0' will remove it. -- Dominic Kexel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Dominic Kexel
ed with net.wlan0 started and stopped. > > - Grant Your driver has to support monitor-mode. I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. -- Dominic Kexel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-28 Thread Dominic Kexel
romisc > > But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode > automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: airmon-ng start wlan0 -- Dominic Kexel

[gentoo-user] problems with rtl8187

2009-01-23 Thread Dominic Kexel
This works fine, but I don't know why the kernel-driver does not work as it should. Any ideas? -- Dominic Kexel

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange dependency of kopete-3.5.9 on qt-4*

2009-01-22 Thread Dominic Kexel
I had the same problem this morning. Adding >=app-crypt/qca-2.0.0-r2 to /etc/portage/package.mask solved it for me, since kopete wanted qca and qca-2 wanted qt4. Dominic On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:09:04 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > After reading a post here today I decided to investigate why I

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Dominic Kexel
That's right, i totaly agree. If you buy a HP-printer, you (almost) can't do something wrong. I am using a HP Deskjet F2180 (40€). Printing and scanning both work without problems. On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 22:00:28 -0800 "Manuel McLure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Mar