Getting WiFi setup on Gentoo

[@smolbirb4]

A very useful video! Gentoo is great! And I really like your videos, keep it up

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

This is excellent content to cover. I think there has been two occasions in many Gentoo builds over the years where I didn't have an Ethernet port or connection to do the initial build on where I had to enable wifi to carry on with the build, and this a really good set of steps to know when in that situation.

[@nishiko28]

the gentoo community has been such a nice thing to be around when switching from arch thanks to people like you :P asking for help is way better than in the arch community, where they'll always instantly tell me "RTFM" despite me sinking hours into trying to troubleshoot it myself TwT

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah arch community can be a little ruthless in terms of trying to help people

[@G.B...]

The two methods described in the video are not actually Gentoo-specific, other than the package manager used to install wpa-supplicant etc. The rest should work on basically any GNU/Linux distribution, or even BSD. Still, the video explains a nice way to get rid of "NetworkManager" (which is often pre-installed on many distros) in favor of the "manual" way, which is lightweight and preferable in my opinion.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah I think I said something about that in the video, it’s not gentoo agnostic, most people watch my videos for the “gentoo” stuff though

[@fabriziot1467]

Great topic! I always follow you with a lot of interest. Could I suggests also IWD? Despite It has been written by intel, not bad at all though 😁

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah like I said in the video, there’s probably more ways to set it up those two are just mine

[@CocolinoFan]

Wa-Fi :)))