Wifi

This article describes the setup of a Wifi network device.

Hardware detection
To choose the right driver, first detect the used Wifi controllers. You can use lspci for this task:

Kernel
You need to activate the following kernel options:

Firmware
Besides the kernel driver, you will also need firmware:

If there is a package, you can simply emerge it, e.g for :

If there is no package, you have to download the firmware and move it to /lib/firmware yourself.

Configuration

 * Network management

Advanced Configuration

 * Power Management