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Re: [PLUG] ubuntu and wpa wireless - semi/mostly solved
chrisb@kippona.com wrote:
On 3 Aug 2006, Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> wrote:
Which did diddly for me, as I had to issue it manually. I tried :
iface ath0 inet dhcp
pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -iath0 -Dmadwifi
down skill wpa_supplicant
in /etc/network/interfaces, which did the same (i.e., nothing).
So what am I missing now, to get this to happen automatically?
This works for me on Knoppix:
1. wpa_passphrase <your_ssid> <your_passphrase> > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
2. chmod 640 /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
3. wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
4. pump -i ath0
Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm doing (altho I may have forgotten the
chmod); I'd just like to automate it. Can't figure out where in the boot
process it isn't working, nor how to easily add it as a last step before
the login prompt happens.
HTH.
By the way, Winders has become very stable, and Linux a PITA on
the desktop for me.
I hear ya. :-(
I mostly using linux via screen via putty/ssh. Emacs in
putty/ssh, too.
Yep; mostly I read email remotely using mutt over putty/ssh using
screen. A great thing, screen - I remember Darxus raving about it once.
It's a shame linux got nowhere with laptop vendors. Knoppix is
all there is.
I figured that since I had kubuntu going, I'd try and watch some AVI
files across my LAN. Nope; no DivX codec. No binary that I could find
(well, nothing official). Installed the w32codecs package, which is
supposed to contain it; still won't play. (and not sure if I chose the
right debian-multimedia.org repository, since mplayer installation
complained of many broken packages, when I thought I'd install that
(which should play anything under Linux).
Then I installed Thunderbird to read my IMAP email; on Linux, apparently
there's a bug, where you can't copy and paste using Thunderbird. A real
aggravation (which I'm sure will be fixed at some point). And I don't
quite like Kontact/Kmail, and installing Evolution wanted to drag in way
too much Gnome stuff, just to read email. I coulda used mutt, but after
all the aggravation to get a decent GUI-oriented distribution installed,
I didn't feel like staying at the command line to read email (altho I
prefer to install packages that way). I didn't even try reading my
Camera RAW files.
So I booted back into WinXP and watched my stuff, and answered some
email. I'll get back to the kubuntu later. Linux is great for servers;
not for desktops yet, I don't think.
But if anyone can help with the WPA daemon issue, or the other things I
came across, I'd love to hear about it.
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