Currently there is a problem with setting DNS from the BOOT parameter

Ideally Webconverger should be deployed in a wired network with a DHCP server. If you only have wireless Internet access you probably need a Wireless router.

Otherwise you can set the IP manually:

   ip=IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY[:IFACE,ADDRESS,NETMASK,GATEWAY]*
          Let  you  specify  the  name(s) and the options of the interface(s) that should be configured at
          boot time. Do not specify this if you want to use dhcp (default).

An example at the bootup prompt:

live ip=eth0,192.168.1.22,255.255.255.0,192.168.1.1

• eth0 means the first interface (you won’t need to change this usually)
• 192.168.1.22 is the IP address
• 255.255.255.0 is the netmask
• 192.168.1.1 is the gateway

Non-standard network (wireless) setups can be customised as a service of Webconverger.com.

Wireless hardware

Please purchase Linux compatible wireless hardware. Else making your wireless work with Webconverger will be very difficult!

Other wireless chipsets known to work:

• most intel based cards
• most atheros based cards
• ipw3945
• ipw2200
• ipw2100
• rt2x00
• rt2570

Wireless devices that require Window’s drivers wrappers such as ndiswrapper or fw-cutter etc. are too painful to integrate with Webconverger. In many cases it simply cannot be done without actually having the device and preparing ‘one off’ packages.

Further links regarding Wireless hardware

• Debian wireless page
• Ubuntu wireless page

Getting a Windows wireless device working

This is a developer reference.

Get the Win32 drivers:

x40:~/webc/wifi% ls
ar5523.bin  ar5523.sys  net5523.cat  net5523.inf

Prime your chroot:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils ndiswrapper-source

Build the ndiswrapper module for your distribution and architecture:

m-a prepare
m-a a-i ndiswrapper

With any luck, you’ll have made a Debian package, like:

/usr/src/ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.22-2-686_1.47-2+2.6.22-4_i386.deb

Install that package. You want that in your config/chroot_local-packages.

Configure your (chroot) system for the device

sudo ndiswrapper -i net5523.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo ndiswrapper -m

Another guide.

Wireless router (recommended)

A Linksys WRT54G in Wireless Client mode is a very good solution for wireless kiosk access. They are about 50USD and this dedicated hardware provides excellent Wireless access without the complication of often proprietary Wireless drivers for each client. The highly recommended Linksys WRT54G allows at least four machines to easily plug into the router.

Also the blog entry on this topic: [[Better Routing wanted]]

Recommended firmware:

• dd-wrt
• Tomato firmware