From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGK78-0003HU-A5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:25:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECDBCE071C; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB598E071C for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 36834 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Dec 2009 22:25:00 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1259879100; bh=qs9+L7o9LogrPjYRxGNlLZFh+AeOZMkYwFFJ0ODeFkk=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=tM7zEzbKtwNQyrYnnTs3dg3AHakFOdcars+trWCACjX6cXEdRkum5/tZiCBrBIL3K+y3mA1uSZbxue+Y8k0ScxYCWR+tR4aLz3p9kRJLTPnQF82ckmjTwtT9e/YC+KIQD18KtpMkIUaBL5SD0ddhtA+L0c7rgPNI/hhLDYsRUto= DomainKey-Signature:a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=rzdMdvdEkEY13ew3xSE+Yemmw5jh6Z+jWt0s910WAEbUDA+4SrgKtDJ5MD6uQaG800hQMJ/bGn5BAdjseh055TXlkMqsHYzEpMshmYX22VX0qFp59Cim+l22MgSm3z8dHUrDbVlx3g7sCZZ6v67XkTV9KILiJoTjOXeHtL9xUUk=; Message-ID: <516026.34605.qm@web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: EFnee6wVM1lWyukz4mJjw7mQzJdp3O1JXTpxWbE53t.xwyh.L_18oho4EiJxc5mTRtLIK2MYybJg6AuqeCoHv7vus.ksImdbpg2XKF4vK0OlQ6AoL35ryzcnqXktWdkUQyhb02YPl70G2PQ0IaOuj0n24ETEAwp_ORgP2uKGFpT5Eb5Rh1luw28COA0UHgc4b9gdRiZGz4ILyX1gMYt_K6XyK2p0mmGG.aKeAMzcxv2yEL_u2SVQCcy_0rIxSzvOQi6aeuDcX9fXnA4GcxnNoVEPDaJTG7FbRW5zzHeaQ0VaPzxAArbNJUo0yGVvI9_P7kP.lXi2kGLb.NuVLJAAA9jdsH5Ko2NE_05Eq_J8vp9n3uQabiDhyGbqjO.paFyf48CBfFjNf0Gs0wWZpL9zTd.70i2.nWBA79k- Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:25:00 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/240.3 YahooMailWebService/0.8.100.260964 References: <541411.31506.qm@web65403.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <4B17B79B.7080602@kutulu.org> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:25:00 -0800 (PST) From: BRM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless... To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4B17B79B.7080602@kutulu.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 69032011-4130-4423-93c6-efa913fb2e8f X-Archives-Hash: 6c30a2352e50dddb80f76382e74d5668 ----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Edenfield > > On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: > > I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: > > essid_wlan0="myWLAN" > > key_MYWLAN="somekey" > > config_MYWLAN=( "dhcp" ) > > preferred_APS= ( "myWLAN" ) > > I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can have a more dynamic configuration. > > I've tried to setup WPA supplicant but haven't been able to get it to work. > Probably not what you wanted to hear, but I had the exact same problem with the Dell bcm-based adapter in my Inspiron laptop. > It would work fine for open wireless and WEP-secured wireless, but wouldn't associated with a WPA-secured access point. > Eventually I spent about $30 to purchase an iwl3945 replacement from Dell, which worked fine, and never looked back. Thanks for the heads up. At this point, I'll be happy if I can just get WEP working using WPA Supplicant/WiCD/etc. instead of a root user centric configuration file. Ben