Ladies and gentlemen, I am now officially wireless. Thanks Paul for the wlan-ng help and Jeff for the free 3com Access Point.
Paul helped me get my wireless pcmcia card working in gentoo. I got up this morning and swapped the living-room hub with the hub in my bedroom (needed the uplink port) and plugged in the access point. I then brought up /etc/init.d/pcmcia and /etc/init.d/wlan. I was still configured for the guru SSID but that would soon change. The only problem was, Jeff never told me how he’d configured the AP before giving it to me… I had my fingers crossed for WEP to be turned off but it really wouldn’t have mattered that much.
> airsnort“Oh, neat, scan.” click
Airsnort saw the AP and I quickly put it’s name in /etc/wlan.conf and restarted /etc/init.d/wlan.
> dhcpcd wlan0
> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop/me unplugs cat5
Now if only there were a way to make batteries wireless - using the wireless pcmcia card drains my batteries in ~45 minutes.