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 <gentoo-user+bounces-97812-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1MOcUo-0006tg-W1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:07:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2D56E075E; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f177.google.com (mail-vw0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0A7FE075E for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vwj7 with SMTP id 7so4471236vwj.32 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:07:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EEVdUvhvTQgIehl6VVZGse8FyZTuDlL0ZLtQJGIRpbA=; b=xcNRmWR7dWNqiZGeJWK2chNbvcJIEdY+7biqq6nPXuy3vlPTYdRHLTdwXianspl537 BJhT/skYnYpw9pBsnjA1E1ZgQGGaADxcWw8kuAN7AK9NNzPtdFBxJyYcWslBrwmn0SAo g9DDYsaKrpEl0CbDXTa/yI7qi0OgpARsEeRlw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=En9dgilK8KqxGpVHBXZms4ul1X1wPTLd2f7VM1Ks6H25CELlR9hJ6ZdJk/oPnTOs03 xEz/zHTl52NR8xDgd4Z0M+RdrfjM34w9F7eNBFEw1WiwdI+SrTYJ/CvMsty2PkgY7nHb 0vuSqOn4duHzODaYXUEN+L1JEYi46D22rWNGE= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.51.21 with SMTP id y21mr2361778yby.79.1247080076965; Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:07:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10907070134n2d871558jd13c09515f47066e@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10907070134n2d871558jd13c09515f47066e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:07:56 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 629ff3da43b43e8d Message-ID: <58965d8a0907081207v73e23c52lb93e22e7e7054802@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Windows-only wireless AP? From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d4d720d3-9b38-4524-a1bb-3d75f00a99d1 X-Archives-Hash: 22f74d973f252568a7e59d1efc101ed6 On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Grant<emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote: > I've also tried to connect via /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 and > wpa_supplicant, but I can't get much information about how it's > failing because it is backgrounded. Could net.wlan0 work even though > wicd fails, and if so, how can I get more info from net.wlan0? If you're using wpa_supplicant you can run wpa_gui which is a GUI for wpa_supplicant :) or run wpa_supplicant in foreground with verbose mode, it'll show more than you ever wanted to see...