The new version of baselayout (as of today marked unstable) comes with an improved support for wireless cards. As the usage of laptops as well as desktop computers equipped with wireless cards is steadily increasing, many people could benefit from a guide on setting up wlan in gentoo. This guide should at least discuss the following topics: * identifying the card (determining the used chipset) * configuring kernel * installing drivers * connecting to an access point * use in different environments with multiple access points Usage in a LiveCD and usage in desktop environments (i.e. tools for kde, gnome etc) would be nice as well. See also http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122435
I'm not sure how to vote and the "my votes" help link seems to be dead so I apologize if this comment isn't appropriate. Just wanted to chime in with "me too", I'd like to see this as well.
Marking as LATER. It is taken in the list of requested documents for future reference.
Created attachment 61751 [details] Wireless guide skeleton and start This is a stab at getting started with this guide. It's my first experience with GuideXML and pretty much with writing guides, so I think it might be a bit wordy, but I wanted to throw what I have so far out there before I get too far into it only to see that I'm either doing things completely wrong or it's just not what's desired. Please let me know what you think and if I should continue. Also, I don't have Wireless B cards or know a lot about them, so I can't write that section. I know a lot more about G and can discuss many cards and solutions there. For a quicker glance, the XML has been converted to html here: http://www.monkzone.net/docs/wireless-guide.html
jeff: we already have a wireless guide written by one of the developers of the new baselayout, we just haven't made it "live" yet
(In reply to comment #4) > jeff: we already have a wireless guide written by one of the developers of the > new baselayout, we just haven't made it "live" yet http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4 Is that the one you were referring to?
(In reply to comment #5) > (In reply to comment #4) > > jeff: we already have a wireless guide written by one of the developers of the > > new baselayout, we just haven't made it "live" yet > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4 > > Is that the one you were referring to? thats it! somehow it totally slipped by me. i remember reading it when it was beta... bah btw, i'm changing the resolution from later to fixed so others don't get confused
fixed (see above)
Looks great. :) But do you think there should be a section on determining the chipset and installing a proper driver? And also, this project is still on the TODO list (also why I got started with it): http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/roadmap.xml Just glad I didn't do more work on it.
(In reply to comment #8) > Looks great. :) > > But do you think there should be a section on determining the chipset and > installing a proper driver? > > And also, this project is still on the TODO list (also why I got started with it): > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/roadmap.xml > > Just glad I didn't do more work on it. I'd like to see both guides merged. Some basic information about how to determine chipset etc. like Jeff began working on are missing and would really improve the current wireless section IMHO.
