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 1OmQSl-0005jr-RQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:12:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB1E7E0766; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F99BE0766 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so2287315ewy.40 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:11:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=iM25IVnI14289kNJIHrSRRTwColAP4StM9I2Weh5DvY=; b=rGPfgPPQBYDHp3TKJbMJEWR1DN00boIhyyJM+T8uXbWrBk2gXnxbnuq3srXWvB2M/p 034Hsv6mJ0xR/6U9UTXc2rKkJyZNuS6ut3XTzY4eIj3EZkrLfQKDseZzkSN8Bc/D+NCj mns5VLhuuqSF9CoFXeHi7Va6GRafO9Q0N/a3A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=dNEm0yMqfeIE/23xQxRrULLxq4S993gBva4bDotA8PDX9nD9MLXxFagEA2yupnJdri LCOgagL1nCO2y23q4e9NIOiVIcIn/2lAGygPluZ0N6gqLV7B5hfoWbhd2/Y2eUrruXgk CrjzcuijYEMnsCcPlOaNO/Ub5gQjK3iuV+G5E= 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 Received: by 10.213.30.15 with SMTP id s15mr1361820ebc.48.1282306300968; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.4.76 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 05:11:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100820092402.11ab50b6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <4C69E9A3.6020801@gmail.com> <4C6B11F3.4030509@gmail.com> <20100820092402.11ab50b6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:11:40 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless From: Elmar Hinz To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: dd40278e-2079-4f59-8216-574132ee3107 X-Archives-Hash: 16b50af6ed45dc04004146e99d96a7c2 > 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 [passphrase] > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B dhcpcd But I already hinted to this. Al