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Wireless (WLAN, Wifi) Guide (doc request)
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Wireless guide skeleton and start
wireless-guide.xml (text/plain), 3.55 KB, created by
Jeff Davidson
on 2005-06-22 21:27:34 UTC
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><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> ><!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd"> ><!-- $Header$ --> > ><guide link="/doc/en/wireless-guide.xml" lang="en"> ><title>Gentoo Linux Wireless Guide</title> ><author title="Author"> > <mail link="supermonkey@gmail.com">Jeff Davidson</mail> ></author> > ><abstract> >This guide explains how to find the proper drivers for your wireless card and >how to set up wireless internet in Gentoo Linux. ></abstract> > ><!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> ><!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> ><license/> > ><version>1.0</version> ><date>2005-06-22</date> > ><chapter> ><title>Introduction</title> > ><section> ><title>The state of wireless in Linux</title> ><body> ><p> >Wireless devices and Linux have rarely been a strong mix. Hardware vendors >are often reluctant to release specifications about their devices, making >it difficult or impossible to write drivers for them. Depending on your >wireless card's chipset, the device may be supported extremely well, >somewhat, or not at all. ></p> ><p> >Wireless-B cards (those that operate at 11 Mbps maximum) tend to be better >supported, as they are older and developers have had time to write more >drivers. If you have a newer Wireless-G card (maximum of 54 Mbps), you >may have more trouble finding working drivers. However, support is improving >by the day, so if your card is not currently supported, keep an eye out for >new projects to emerge. ></p> ></body> ></section> > ></chapter> > ><chapter> ><title>Checking for support</title> > ><section> ><title>Identifying your wireless chipset</title> ><body> ><p> >To identify your wireless chipset, first determine if how it is connected. If >it is a USB device, you will need to use <c>lsusb</c>, available in the >sys-apps/usbutils package. If it is PCI or PCMCIA, you will need <c>lspci</c>, >available in sys-apps/pciutils. If you are on the Gentoo LiveCD, you should >have these commands available. ></p> ><p> >In a terminal, type the command for how your device is connected. You should >see a profile of all the PCI/PCMCIA or USB devices in your system, depending >on which command you used. Look through the output for your wireless device. >This should start with a few numbers. If you use <c>lspci</c>, it will then say >"Network controller:", and then in either case your wireless card's chipset. >For example, this is the important line on my system: ></p> ><pre caption="Output of lspci"> >... >0000:03:00.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface >... ></pre> ><p> >Your best bet is to search for information on your chipset to see what other >users have discovered, and if there exist any drivers for the wireless card. >You may find information here: ></p> ><ul> > <li><uri link="http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz"> > WLAN Adapter Chipset Directory</uri> - this is somewhat outdated, but useful > for older cards</li> > <li><uri link="http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List"> > Ndiswrapper supported cards list</uri> - has cards not only supported by > the ndiswrapper project (detailed below) but by other projects.</li> ></ul> ><p> >If you have a wireless B chipset, continue to the <uri link="#bchips">B chipset section</uri>. >If you have a wireless G chipset, go to the <uri link="#gchips">G chipset section</uri>. ></p> ></body> ></section> > ><section id="bchips"> ><title>Wireless B chipsets</title> ><body> ><p> >TODO: Information on Wireless B chipsets ></p> ></body> ></section> > ><section id="gchips"> ><title>Wireless G chipsets</title> ><body> ><p> >TODO: Information on Wireless G chipsets ></p> ></body> ></section> > ></chapter> > ></guide>
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