Wifi connects if done manually but not with any connection managers

Heresyte · 2009-08-08 16:42:06

Hi, I've moved into a new house and I am having trouble connecting my laptop to the AP here. It works fine if I do things manually with a bash script but all the connection managers give me errors about authentication failing or not being able to obtain an IP address. I've tried wicd, wifi-radar, wlassistant, netcfg and I think more that I'm not remembering.

The bash script that works is this:

ifconfig ra0 up
iwconfig ra0 essid superstar
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i ra0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd ra0

As far as I know I configured the connection managers to do exactly this but it never works. Any ideas?

iphitus · 2009-08-09 01:21:03

please post _exact_ error messages, even if they are one liners.

djszapi · 2009-08-09 05:13:25

Hello heresyte!

Do the gui appliactions use dhcpcd/dhclient ? What's the problem if you start it from console.
Did you try with networkmanager/nm-applet too? If they can't work you can automatize this to put it in the xinitrc, or rc.local, or using autowifi.

Statix · 2009-08-09 07:47:05

In wicd, make sure your wireless interface in the preferences is indeed ra0. For me the default was wlan0 (maybe due to autodetection, but it's worth a shot.)

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#1 2009-08-08 16:42:06

Wifi connects if done manually but not with any connection managers

#2 2009-08-09 01:21:03

Re: Wifi connects if done manually but not with any connection managers

#3 2009-08-09 05:13:25

Re: Wifi connects if done manually but not with any connection managers

#4 2009-08-09 07:47:05

Re: Wifi connects if done manually but not with any connection managers

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