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Jun 06 18:55:33 <kusznir> Hi all: has anyone gotten the dreamplug wireless working on their own OS image?  I'm in the position where I need to do that...
Jun 06 18:56:03 <Tootoot222> kusznir: as an access point or client?
Jun 06 18:56:10 <kusznir> access point
Jun 06 18:56:38 <Tootoot222> i haven't gotten my dreamplug yet, so i don't know; does it not have a setup script like the guruplug did?
Jun 06 18:56:48 <Tootoot222> (on the default install)
Jun 06 18:57:25 <kusznir> On the default install, it has a web environment to set it up; I haven't even been able to determine what wifi driver it uses.
Jun 06 18:57:59 <Tootoot222> you could pick apart the web scripts and see what they call to do different things
Jun 06 18:58:27 <kusznir> I have a gentoo filesystem (currently booting with the stock kernel) running, and it doesn't seem to see the wifi at all.
Jun 06 18:58:47 <Tootoot222> on the guruplug, the scripts would modprobe modules into the kernel
Jun 06 18:58:55 <Tootoot222> depending on if you wanted ap or client
Jun 06 18:59:40 <Tootoot222> (you also needed to have the proper firmware loaded into a directory)
Jun 06 19:02:23 <kusznir> Ok.  I also remember hearing that what the dreams ran on was different wifi hardware than the guru's; it was supposed to be easier or something.
Jun 06 19:02:29 <kusznir> Oh well, I'm investagating now.
Jun 06 19:02:35 <kerio> iwconfig eth1 up
Jun 06 19:02:47 <kerio> if that doesn't work out of the box marvell botched it
Jun 06 19:03:03 <kerio> well, more globalscale than marvell
Jun 06 19:03:47 <kusznir> kerio: On my box, it shows up as something wierd (uap0)
Jun 06 19:03:59 <kusznir> and eth1 is the second gig-e connector.
Jun 06 19:04:05 <kerio> eth2 then
Jun 06 19:04:18 <kerio> wtf is uap
Jun 06 19:04:23 <kusznir> BTW: Tootoot222 our test box had two gig connections plugged in while running the cpu and ram max for several days with no crashing.
Jun 06 19:04:25 <kerio> ap is probably access point
Jun 06 19:04:27 <kusznir> uap0 is the wifi AP.
Jun 06 19:05:35 <kusznir> Bluetooth appears to use btmrvl_sdio and btmrvl.  Don't care about bluetooth currently, though.
Jun 06 19:06:03 <kusznir> I'm guessing the AP is uap8xxx
Jun 06 19:10:53 <Tootoot222> kerio: uap = u ap = u access point = micro access point = name of the chip
Jun 06 19:11:00 <kerio> ooh, µ
Jun 06 19:11:03 <Tootoot222> yeah
Jun 06 19:11:11 <kerio> why didn't they say so
Jun 06 19:11:19 <Tootoot222> because that's a unicode character
Jun 06 19:11:24 <Tootoot222> difficult to type in asci
Jun 06 19:11:25 <Tootoot222> i
Jun 06 19:11:26 <Tootoot222> =3
Jun 06 19:11:47 <kerio> muap0 then
Jun 06 19:12:18 <Tootoot222> trying to keep a 3 letter consistancy with eth0
Jun 06 19:27:27 <kusznir> Ok, how does one set the wireless AP name?
Jun 06 19:41:09 <kusznir> err..the SSID of the AP.
Jun 06 19:45:19 <kusznir> This globalscale OS is a big pile of steaming ******.
Jun 06 19:45:38 <kusznir> Now I'm even more convinced that replacing it with my own image was the right thing to do.
Jun 06 19:45:41 <Tootoot222> XD
Jun 06 19:46:13 <Tootoot222> it's what happens when a company says, "hey, we can use linux to cut our costs! it's just like a free version of windows!"
Jun 06 19:46:55 <kusznir> Yea...In many cases, it sucks really bad when there is a good distro out there that needs a little tweaking, and instead they make their own distro.
Jun 06 19:48:15 <kusznir> gotta love it: iwconfig: uap0: no wireless extensions.
Jun 06 19:48:23 <Tootoot222> XD
Jun 06 19:48:50 <kusznir> how do I SET the wfi network SSID its the AP for?????  And do things like turn off SSID broadcast, etc?
Jun 06 19:50:17 <kusznir> You know, OpenWRT might have been a nice platform to use for these things as the base image...It seems to do everything they're wanting to do out of the box, and it does it with way less overhead and way more useful/standard c onfigs...
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