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Kane

Member

Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

netcfg2 at boot

Hi guys,
I recently aquired an old laptop, so i thought what better distro than arch

Anyway, im onto networking, and having only used arch on a desktop pc with no wifi i have no experience getting wpa to work.

I managed to get it working using wpa_supplicant (with ndiswrapper), its a pcmcia device.

Then i went on to try and get it working at boot, so i changed to using network profiles.
I created a profile in /etc/network.d/ and if u run netcfg2 profile then i get a couple of errors like so:

Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory

But after a few of these errors it seems to connect just fine.

Now if i try to use the profile at boot, i get the errors still as above, but it no longer connects.
When its booted if i run netcfg2 again, it starts fine, although sometimes it takes a couple of attempts.

I thought this might be a connection problem at first, but it still happens even sat right next to the router

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks
Kane

Kane

Member

Registered: 2006-10-08

Posts: 220

Re: netcfg2 at boot

I found a work around, simply to use wicd instead of netcfg2

This way it seems to work