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Coume

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Registered: 2008-02-10

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New instal & wicd..... Can,t automate the wifi connexion using WPA...

Hello,

I was stuck for few months on a Windows laptop but finally got some cash to buy one with HW linux compatible

Ok, I am able to connect to the wifi using the following manual commands:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid secret
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd wlan0

but I can't manage to connect automatically using wicd

I can't see what I'm missing so any help will be more than welcome

Thanks
Ludo

Last edited by Coume (2009-04-04 22:42:16)

Magnu5

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Re: New instal & wicd..... Can,t automate the wifi connexion using WPA...

Hi, I'm not sure if this is any help to you, but have you checked the wiki?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

Dusty

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Re: New instal & wicd..... Can,t automate the wifi connexion using WPA...

I've also been having trouble with WICD since I upgraded several packages including madwifi yesterday. The manual commands also work for me, so I changed WICD's preferences to use wext as wpa_supplicant driver instead of madwifi and its working now.

YMMV

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Coume

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-02-10

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Re: New instal & wicd..... Can,t automate the wifi connexion using WPA...

Thanks for the responses.

Dusty, I also found out earlier today that I had to use wpa_supplicant

Anyway, it's all working fine now...

thanks
Ludo, struggling to install with VMware Server