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From: Elmar Hinz <oss.elmar@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:11:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=dByzspvLm5KRMRVx6oAhrgGK0G1DqEUkYT+2n@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100820092402.11ab50b6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

> Wicd require wpa_supplicant because that's what it uses, not you. Wicd
> does all the hard work, you just give it the password etc. and let it get
> on with things.

What is hard with wpa_supplicant? It is just three lines:

 wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase] > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
 wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
 dhcpcd

But I already hinted to this.

Al



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17  1:45 [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless CJoeB
2010-08-17  1:55 ` Adam Carter
2010-08-17 10:55   ` Jake Moe
2010-08-17 23:04     ` CJoeB
2010-08-18  1:12       ` Jake Moe
2010-08-18  2:56         ` CJoeB
2010-08-18 18:50           ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-18 21:47           ` Jake Moe
2010-08-20 15:44           ` Mick
2010-08-17  8:36 ` David Abbott
2010-08-17 11:05   ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 22:49   ` CJoeB
2010-08-20  8:24     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-08-20 12:11       ` Elmar Hinz [this message]
2010-08-17 11:11 ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 11:55   ` Adam Carter
2010-08-17 16:09     ` Elmar Hinz
2010-08-17 11:19 ` Elmar Hinz

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