To follow up: I removed knetworkmanager and installed wicd. I got mixed results. At my favorite coffee spot, I got the free wi-fi on wicd's connect menu and it actually did connect. But it does not work for my home network. Of course the free wi-fi is not encrypted while my home wi-fi is set to WPA2. I have been able to connect manually (using ifup). Also, with wicd I didn't see any way to disconnect. I do get my home network on the connect menu of wicd but according to syslog dhcp fails to get an IP. When I use ifup, it gets an IP on the first try.
Richard On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Nick Schmalenberger < n...@schmalenberger.us> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:33:57PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote: > > On 11-10-17 07:02 PM, Richard Harke wrote: > > > I got a new router/access point and have been going nuts trying to get > > > my laptop to connect > > > via wireless. I previously had static IP addresses but my wife wanted > > > me to change to dhcp > > > to make things easier for her windows machines. Well, her machines are > > > just fine. The dos I've > > > read said that fr KDE I should use knetworkmanager, which I'm trying > > > to do. I finally left > > > my eth0 config in /etc/network/interfaces and intend for > > > knetworkmanager to just handle > > > wireless. I think I'm getting close as I now get a popup window for > > > the pass phrase but > > > still no connection. > > Dump knetworkmanager and download wicd. It's easier to work with and it > > works like a charm. > > > I still just use /etc/network/interfaces, even for wpa wireless > networks. If there are some I don't connect to often, I keep a > separate wpa_supplicant configuration file for them > (wpa_passphrase generates it) and use that manually with > wpa_supplicant then run dhclient manually. > Nick > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech >
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