Handbook Talk:Parts/Installation/Networking
Missing Path template
In the following sentence there's a missing Path template around wlan0:
- In the above example, 6 interfaces are found. The eth0 one is most likely the (wired) Ethernet adapter whereas wlan0 is the wireless one.
Fturco (talk) 15:20, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
- Fixed! --Maffblaster (talk) 18:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
Missing whitespace
In the following sentence there's a missing whitespace between working, and continue:
- "Once wireless is working,continue configuring the IP level networking options as described in the next section (Understanding network terminology) or use the net-setup tool as described previously."
Fturco (talk) 15:26, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
- Fixed! --Maffblaster (talk) 18:38, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
iw dev wlp9s0 connect -w GentooNode key 0:d:1234123412341234abcd wrong
key must be [d:]index:data where
'd:' means default (transmit) key
'index:' is a single digit (0-3)
'data' must be 5 or 13 ascii char
or 10 or 26 hex digits
for example: d:2:6162636465 is the same as d:2:abcde
i'am wired man, but other sites provide examples:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/iw/replace-iwconfig iw wlan0 connect foo keys 0:abcde d:1:0011223344 --Cronolio (talk) 09:21, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
HTTPS link
The following link should use HTTPS instead of plain HTTP: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ -- Fturco (talk) 14:12, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
File location
The following file location lacks a leading slash: etc/ppp/pap-secrets. -- Fturco (talk) 14:19, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Another missing Path template
Consider the following sentence: "Some wireless cards may have a device name of wlan0 or ra0 instead of wlp9s0." We should add a Path template around "wlp9s0". -- Fturco (talk) 14:30, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
Warning
There is a warning on this page: "Do not try to follow instructions directly from the Handbook:Parts namespace (WHICH THIS PAGE!), or any of its sub-pages. The Handbook:Parts is a meta handbook used for transcluding text into other Handbooks. Use the architecture-specific Handbooks found in the Handbook list for complete installation instructions." It is very long and difficult to understand. If it is really important, it should be short and simple. What is the message here? How can we shorten it and focus on the gist? --Jonas Stein (talk) 16:06, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
Let's move "Understanding network terminology"
Understanding network terminology is a good general introduction into IPv4, netmasks and so on, but it does not belong into the handbook. Any objections to move this subsection to a separate wiki page? --Jonas Stein (talk) 18:07, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
ip and ifconfig
We switch between the old ifconfig and the modern, more powerful ip command. Should we unify it to ip and simply add a sentence about the difference? --Jonas Stein (talk) 21:19, 25 March 2023 (UTC)