Re: using Hotplug to set Params for Prism54?

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 06:06:48PM +0200, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 14:42, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I'm just trying to pass on Network-Params to my Prism54-card using
> > Hotplug. I found this hint on a Gentoo-Forum (I'm using Gentoo on this
> > machine) ... but I can't get this to work. What I want: Use Hotplug to
> > set ESSID and WEP-Key.
> 
peter@gonzo peter $ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge waproamd -pv

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-wireless/waproamd-0.6   0 kB 

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


I added waproamd to portage a while ago, but i've not yet marked it
stable on x86 til i find time to fix small annoyance with the default
script (it looks for ifup/ifdown which gentoo does not have). Should be working fine though.

-pete

> jfyi;
> 
> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/waproamd/
> waproamd - WLAN roaming daemon
> Description: WLAN roaming daemon
>  waproamd is a Linux WLAN roaming daemon for IEEE 802.11b
>  cards supported by a driver with wireless extension API. It may be
>  used for configuring WEP keys according to the WLANs available. It is
>  intended to be used in conjunction with ifplugd, which configures your
>  network automatically whenever an association with an AP suceeded.
> 
> there are a few other similar tools, such as
> http://jelmer.vernstok.nl/oss/wlandetect/
> 
> regards,
> -- 
> Herbert Valerio Riedel <[email protected]>
> 
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Peter Johanson
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