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# Copyright 2004 Josh Glover <unix@jmglov.net>
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# centrino-wlan.txt
#
# DESCRIPTION:
#
#   Captain's Log for setting up the wireless networking on my Centrino
#   (Intel PRO/Wireless 2100) laptop running a 2.6 kernel.
#
# USAGE:
#
#   Read the Captain's Log, pasting bits into your terminal once you
#   have verified that all paths, settings and so on are right for your
#   environment, *OR*, copy the Captain's Log somewhere on your box,
#   edit it to fit your environment, and run it (possibly as root):
#
#   bash centrino-wlan.txt
#
# MODIFICATIONS:
#
#   Josh Glover <unix@jmglov.net> (2004/05/11): Initial revision
# =========================================================================

# Install the Wireless Tools for Linux
emerge net-wireless/wireless-tools

# Install the HostAP wireless drivers (see bug #s 47726, 41141, and 32737
# at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to see why 'emerge net-wireless/hostap-driver'
# did not work for me).
FEATURES="-sandbox -userpriv -usersandbox -ccache -distcc buildpkg" \
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' \
emerge net-wireless/hostap-driver

### Is this really necessary? ###
# Install Hotplug support
emerge sys-apps/hotplug
### Is this really necessary? ###

# Install IPW2100 driver (see bug #s 47726, 41141, and 32737
# at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ to see why 'emerge net-wireless/ipw2100'
# did not work for me).
FEATURES="-sandbox -userpriv -usersandbox -ccache -distcc buildpkg" \
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' \
emerge net-wireless/ipw2100

# Add the IPW2100 driver module to the list of modules that get
# autoloaded at boot time, and then load it
echo ipw2100 >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
modprobe ipw2100

# Determine which NIC is the wireless one (it should be the ethN
# interface with the largest value of N, and should not have the
# RUNNING flag set)
ifconfig -a

# Set WNIC to the name of the wireless NIC that you discovered above
WNIC=eth1

# Start wireless interface
ESSID="My SSID"
WAP="00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00"
WIP="192.168.1.10"
WEPKEY="dead-beef-0000-dead-beef-0000-00"
iwconfig ${WNIC} key ${WEPKEY} key restricted
iwconfig ${WNIC} essid ${ESSID} mode Managed ap ${WAP}
ifconfig ${WNIC} ${WIP} up

# [ Optional ] Install ifplugd to automatically stop and start
# the wireless interface when a cable or signal is added or removed
#emerge sys-apps/ifplugd
#sed -i.bak -e 's/^INTERFACES=".\+"/INTERFACES="'${WNIC}'"/' \
#  /etc/conf.d/ifplugd