raspbmc WLAN setup

Installed raspbmc (specialised XBMC distro) on my raspi yesterday. It's not 100% stable, but if you stick to the built-in stuff and don't use any fancy modules, it seems to work pretty okay. I've installed a Siemens Gigaset USB Stick 54 (WLAN) which didn't require additional kernel modules to be built - it works out of the box. The setup worked like this:

$ sudo -s $ cat << EOF > /etc/network/interfaces allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa.conf EOF $ wpa_passphrase networkssid passkey > /etc/wpa.conf $ chmod 600 /etc/wpa.conf

In theory, this should have brought the network up instantly…

$ ifup wlan0

… but I had to reboot instead.