<p>Getting the networking to run is essential in today's need for permanent internet connection. As keeping up to date with all the different and ever changing hardware and drivers is quite impossible for a small project, Haiku relies on a <ahref="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a> compatibility layer for its networking drivers.<br/>
This ensures a massive amount of supported hardware, though probably not 100% of what's out there. See <ahref="https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/daily-tasks/wireless#hardware-notes">this list online</a> for a list of supported models or check <ahref="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html#wlan">FreeBSD 9.2's release hardware notes</a>.</p>
<p>Hoci sme prvú prekážku všeobecne podporovaného hardvéru prekonali, niektoré bezdrôtové ovládače vyžadujú binárne moduly firmvéru, aby správne fungovali. Haiku nemôže distribuovať niektoré z týchto proprietárnych súborov firmvéru z licenčných dôvodov. Haiku však obsahuje jednoduchý skript, ktorý stiahne a nainštaluje všetky proprietárne súbory za vás. Vo všeobecnosti, ak plánujete používať bezdrôtovú sieť, odporúča sa spustiť tento skript, aby ste zabezpečili, že váš systém má všetok tento firmvér k dispozícii, keď ho budete potrebovať.</p>
<p>Ak nemáte prístup k internetu, aby ste mohli stiahnuť tieto súbory s firmvérom v Haiku, existuje aj offline spôsob, pozri <ahref="#tips">tipy</a> below.</p>
<p>By default, Haiku will join the first unencrypted wireless network it finds after booting up. To connect to a specific network, you use the Desktop applet <ahref="desktop-applets/networkstatus.html">NetworkStatus</a>.</p>
<p>Right-click on its icon in the Deskbar and choose the network's public name (which is the "SSID" it broadcasts) from the context menu.</p>
<p>A window opens where you enter the type of authentication (probably WPA/WPA2, WEP is not a secure encryption anymore!) and the password for that wireless network. Click <spanclass="button">OK</span> to start the login process.<br/> Depending on your hardware and network configuration this may take a while. You'll be kept informed of the progress by notifications:</p>
<p>Once it reads "Ready" and the NetworkStatus icon in the Deskbar shows a green round light, the connection is established. If the notifications end in "No link" and a yellow triangle, something went wrong, probably an incorrect password.</p>
<p>If you prefer to use the command line or would like to use scripting or the <spanclass="path">~/config/settings/boot/UserBootscript</span> to automate things to join a specific network on bootup, there's the command <tt>ifconfig</tt>.</p>
<p>Make sure the initial configuration of the wireless network adapter after booting up has finished, before issuing <tt>ifconfig</tt> commands or they might be ignored. Depending on your hardware and network configuration that may take a while. Watch those notifications...</p>
<ul><li><p>Here is how you get to install your firmware if you don't yet have a working internet connection under Haiku. You download the following files while in another operating system, boot Haiku, copy them to their respective location and invoke the <spanclass="cli">install-wifi-firmwares.sh</span> script.</p>
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<li><p>Copy these two to <spanclass="path">/boot/system/data/firmware/broadcom43xx/b43-fwcutter/</span>:<br/>
