On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:23 +, CJoeB wrote:
More than anything, I am acknowledging this response. My understanding
is that Wicd requires wpa-supplicant. I don't know that I'm ready to
try to tackle the setup of wpa-supplicant - it's supposed to be harder
(it looks harder from what I
Wicd require wpa_supplicant because that's what it uses, not you. Wicd
does all the hard work, you just give it the password etc. and let it get
on with things.
What is hard with wpa_supplicant? It is just three lines:
wpa_passphrase ssid [passphrase] /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
On 18 August 2010 03:56, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Haven't tried this yet - just got the e-mail and it's almost 11:00 p.m.
and time for me to hit the sack. However, I wanted to point this
out. This test was copied from dmesg. Unless, I am misreading this, it
looks like the
This is a full protocol of all steps I need to do to get wlan0 running
with wpa_supplicant:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_PRO52H#Network
Al
On 18/08/10 12:56, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help.
I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts
depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have the file to
edit [1] will change.
[0]
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having
I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts
AFAIK Wicd is just a graphical frontend to wpa_supplicant.
So I would recommend to try wpa_supplicant on the command line to get
full feedback.
And once the card is running you maybe don't really need a graphical
frontend at
@ CJoeB
It can be really hard. I needed days. There is more than one difficulty.
For example I needed to set my laptop type in the kernel (asus_laptop).
Without that, the card is not turned on at all, even if the card driver itself
is loaded.
Then you need to compile the password for
When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy
way of getting wireless working. However, I rebooted and now, when I
type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported. Yes,
I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the
kernel was
Then you need to compile the password for wpa_supplicant with wpa_password.
It doesn´t take the plain passphrase.
It does for me;
For pre-shared keys
psk=plainpassphrase
For .1x/EAP
password=plainpassphrase
Then you need to compile the password for wpa_supplicant with
wpa_password.
It doesn´t take the plain passphrase.
It does for me;
For pre-shared keys
psk=plainpassphrase
For .1x/EAP
password=plainpassphrase
Interesting. I'll give it a try.
By the way, what I really wanted to say is:
On 08/17/10 08:36, David Abbott wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help.
I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts
depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have the
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
Things were so much
Hi,
I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my
previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and
the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having problems with wireless.
Things were so
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