On 01/22/2014 03:12 PM, Niels Terp wrote: > > wpa_supplicant is there to allow your wifi interface to associate with a > wifi access point in negociating the required authentification elements, > nothing more.Once the association is successful dhclient asks the access > point to provide an IP adress to the wifi interface. > > To test wlan interface, as root, ifdown eth0, ifdown wlan0, remove the > cable, ifup wlan0. > > I tried that, and besides that I don't have a wlan0 but wifi0, then that > works. It fetches an IP ok, and I can surf the internet. BUT what do I do > when I want to connect to another (random) AP ? I cannot scan for it ? > > I'm sorry for the many "newbee" questions, networks is definitely one of my > weak points ! > > Niels >
Use something like wicd or NetworkManager (requires network-manager-gnome for GTK+ based desktops or plasma-nm for KDE) -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
