To follow up: I removed knetworkmanager and installed wicd. I got mixed results.<br>At my favorite coffee spot, I got the free wi-fi on wicd's connect menu and it<br>actually did connect. But it does not work for my home network. Of course the<br>
free wi-fi is not encrypted while my home wi-fi is set to WPA2. I have been able to<br>connect manually (using ifup). Also, with wicd I didn't see any way<br>to disconnect.<br>I do get my home network on the connect menu of wicd but according<br>
to syslog dhcp fails to get an IP. When I use ifup, it gets an IP on the first<br>try.<br><br>Richard<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Nick Schmalenberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick@schmalenberger.us">nick@schmalenberger.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:33:57PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:<br>
> On 11-10-17 07:02 PM, Richard Harke wrote:<br>
> > I got a new router/access point and have been going nuts trying to get<br>
> > my laptop to connect<br>
> > via wireless. I previously had static IP addresses but my wife wanted<br>
> > me to change to dhcp<br>
> > to make things easier for her windows machines. Well, her machines are<br>
> > just fine. The dos I've<br>
> > read said that fr KDE I should use knetworkmanager, which I'm trying<br>
> > to do. I finally left<br>
> > my eth0 config in /etc/network/interfaces and intend for<br>
> > knetworkmanager to just handle<br>
> > wireless. I think I'm getting close as I now get a popup window for<br>
> > the pass phrase but<br>
> > still no connection.<br>
> Dump knetworkmanager and download wicd. It's easier to work with and it<br>
> works like a charm.<br>
><br>
</div>I still just use /etc/network/interfaces, even for wpa wireless<br>
networks. If there are some I don't connect to often, I keep a<br>
separate wpa_supplicant configuration file for them<br>
(wpa_passphrase generates it) and use that manually with<br>
wpa_supplicant then run dhclient manually.<br>
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