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Cosay

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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FTP Installs And Wireless

I currently have a computer running Ubuntu 8.0.4-1 x64 and it works fine with its wireless network card, a Linksys WMP54G v4.1 (lspci lists it as "RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI"). I would like to install Arch on this box and I was wondering if FTP installs can be performed wirelessly.

Thank you.

Robstar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: FTP Installs And Wireless

By all means it is possible.
What you would need to do is pre-setup the wireless, so it can connect wireless.
I assume you have wpa-psk protection,
so using wpa_supplicant is the easy choice. Luckily I use the same drivers as what your required.
Make sure first a wireless interface exits, so either ifconfig or iwconfig.
If it doesn't exist, then modprobe rt61pci, this should create the wireless interface.

I recommend that you mount your hard drives first, exit and then setup your wireless for the next section, as you can't write to a CD.

wpa_passphrase <ESSID or name of wirless> <wpa_psk> > /media/<hard drive mount>/etc/wpa1.conf

use this command to check it connects

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -i<wilress interface> -c/media/<hard drive mount>/etc/wpa1.conf

then this one to put it into the background.

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -i<wilress interface> -c/media/<hard drive mount>/etc/wpa1.conf -B

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32-bit Gentoo -to- Arch64
If you could be so kind, but when you found the solution,
edit your first post and add to the title '[SOLVED]'.

Cosay

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From: United States

Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 82

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Re: FTP Installs And Wireless

Thanks Robstar! I'm up and running.