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jmags

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 48

Problems with wpa_supplicant and network configs

So I installed Arch on a new laptop that uses bcm43xx based drivers. The night I installed it I got it running on my home wireless network manually.

sudo ifconfig eth1 up
sudo iwconfig eth1 essid mynetworkname
sudo iwconfig eth1 key hexkey
sudo dhclient eth1

(my home network has a regular old WEP key)

Yesterday I brought it to work, where we have WPA security.

sudo ifconfig eth1 up
sudo iwconfig eth1 essid companynetworkname
sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -Bw -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
sudo dhclient eth1

Which worked. However, when I shut the laptop down and brought it home it was impossible to get it running on my home network. Is it possible that there's some sort of artifact left behind by running wpa_supplicant even after shutting the computer down? Is there some way to be absolutely sure that everything is reset? I'm pretty confused by this, so even idle speculation is appreciated.

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Problems with wpa_supplicant and network configs

you might want to try out the network-profiles, just to make sure
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_profiles

Last edited by xdeusx (2007-11-14 21:11:56)