Re: RESOLVED: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-11-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 01 Nov 2011 at 09:05:36 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Below are some references. This post is a continuation of the postings there. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/10/msg02257.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/10/msg02567.html Here's the pertinent stanza from

Re: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-11-01 Thread J. Bakshi
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 00:47:27 + Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 12:53:21 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: If I boot the laptop with the Ethernet cable plugged in (eth0), that connection works fine. A good practice might be to down the unused interface. When

RESOLVED: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-11-01 Thread keitho
Thank you Brian for showing me that route -v is my friend :-) That really helped me debug this configuration. Thank you J. Bakshi for your explication of the use of the pre-up and pre-down instructions. Turns out that one of the problems with my configuration was that I had both a scan_ssid=1

Re: RESOLVED: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-11-01 Thread J. Bakshi
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 09:05:36 -0700 kei...@strucktower.com wrote: Nice to hear your success and thanks for sharing the config [] Note: this works without using a wpa_supplicant.conf or guessnet. [.] As there is only one wired configuration you don't need guessnet; but for multiple

Re: RESOLVED: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-11-01 Thread keitho
Ooops my bad... After I posted this message I found out that there is another problem with my configuration so now I am sorry I attached those configuration files... Although the interfaces work as expected, I later noticed that my syslog was getting filled with about 15 events logged

Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-10-31 Thread keitho
Thanks to Brian, Raf, CamaleĆ³n, and J Bakshi for helping me out. I have gotten wpa_supplicant and ifplugd mostly working, with wpa_cli and wpa-roam.conf. My configuration seems to work in connecting me wirelessly to several routers in different locations that I use and to free wifi hotspots (I

Re: Learning ifpludg in CLI, WAS Re: laptop wireless setup, wpa_supplicant.conf, etc

2011-10-31 Thread Brian
On Mon 31 Oct 2011 at 12:53:21 -0700, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: If I boot the laptop with the Ethernet cable plugged in (eth0), that connection works fine. If I then unplug the Ethernet cable I can not connect to the outside world via the wireless (eth1). Yet I can ping machines inside my