To get wireless working, the best thing to do is first get on a wired network. Then do:
sudo emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
This will install some needed tools.
The next step is to figure out which is your wireless device. Try this first:
ifconfig
If you see something listed there other than "eth0" or "lo", that one is your wireless device. If you don't see anything else, do this:
iwconfig
This should give you another list of devices similar to ifconfig. Using my old USB wireless adaptor, it comes up here as "wlan0".
If you don't find your device listed there, then do:
dmesg | less
And scroll down near the bottom to see if the system tells you of errors. The kernel that alejo put on there for me already had my drivers. But, when I looked here, dmesg told me it couldn't load the firmware. So, I had to go and download and install the firmware myself. No big deal really.
Getting your card recognized by the system and loaded can be a biznatch sometimes. But, it is getting easier. With this same USB device, it took me 4 days to get it to work with gentoo 5 years ago. Two days ago, it only took a few hours, and only because I didn't have any wired network to load things directly.
Okay, now that your wireless card is loaded and recognized, you have to configure it for your network and tell the boot system to load it when booting.
Using the text editor, nano, you need to edit a few files. One of the will be:
sudo nano /etc/conf.d/net
The other will be:
sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
A lot of this is documented in detail here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4
It's best to at least look at that. Many of the options will depend on your particular card or your particular network.
If you get this far and don't know how to read the docs at gentoo, it's probably best just to write here and get some assistance from Alejo, me, or some other linux gurus. Configuring is pretty straightforward.
The final thing you will need to do is tell the system to start the wireless at boot. Do the following command, substituting your device name for "wlan0":
cd /etc/init.d sudo ln -s net.lo net.wlan0 sudo rc-update add net.wlan0 default
best -august.
Hi August
Can you post to the list a synthetic howto with tips you find and the series of steps along the process, please ? this could be helpful for other streamers and we could publish it on our guidelines if you're ok in order to complete Alejo's info Let us know your next experiments with the streambox
thanks best j
Le 8 oct. 11 à 00:07, august a écrit :
Hi,
I finally got my stream up at my new residence in Oakland, using a wireless device to get connectivity. Thanks to Alejo for the ayuda.
I have some questions though.
Has anyone used the streambox outside? I'd like to get it outside where there is a pretty rich sound environment. Any ideas or suggestions on that? How to encase the box? Or, alternatively, how to extend the mic so that I just put that part outside?
I need to worry about both rain and dust.
Has anyone tried to make a parabolic mic for the streambox? I'm not too happy with the sound I'm getting and I'm almost certain it could be better. What kind of adjustments have you been making to fine tune the sound quality?
Any suggestions would be helpful.
best -august.
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