[vox-tech] Wi-Fi

[Richard Harke]

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 <
nick at 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
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