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Post subject: Configuring wireless manually
 Posted: May 16, 2008 - 07:57 PM
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I used ceni the other day to configure my wireless nic - wonderful tool that really helped me out. Once I had my nic up and running I got curious about how to configure wireless without ceni.
After some Googling I ended up with this page from the wpasupplicant documentation. I also found something similar in the manual. After reading this, and taking a look at my own /etc/network/interfaces, it seems that all it takes to configure a wireless nic is to add wpa-psk and wpa-ssid to the file, then do a ifdown/ifup on the interface. I guess I am overseeing something, as it can't be that easy. Or can it...? |
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Posted: May 16, 2008 - 10:24 PM
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(Has a chuckle about finding the same info in the manual,, grins)
You may want to check out this sidux wiki entry too:
http://sidux.com/index.php?module=pnWik ... wparoaming
From looking at it seems that its the kwlan gui
apt-cache search wpagui
wpagui - GUI for wpa_supplicant
$ apt-cache search wpa_gui
kwlan - wpasupplicant frontend for KDE
I dont have wifi, so spared the hoaryness , lol |
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Post subject: Re: Configuring wireless manually
Posted: May 16, 2008 - 11:54 PM
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effo wrote:
it seems that all it takes to configure a wireless nic is to add wpa-psk and wpa-ssid to the file, then do a ifdown/ifup on the interface. I guess I am overseeing something, as it can't be that easy. Or can it...?
It can, if you want to connect to one network only. No need for a frontend if you know the syntax. All the nice frontends only write into /etc/network/interfaces as well.
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Post subject: Re: Configuring wireless manually
Posted: May 17, 2008 - 12:28 AM
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effo wrote:
I used ceni the other day to configure my wireless nic - wonderful tool that really helped me out. Once I had my nic up and running I got curious about how to configure wireless without ceni.
After some Googling I ended up with this page from the wpasupplicant documentation. I also found something similar in the manual. After reading this, and taking a look at my own /etc/network/interfaces, it seems that all it takes to configure a wireless nic is to add wpa-psk and wpa-ssid to the file, then do a ifdown/ifup on the interface. I guess I am overseeing something, as it can't be that easy. Or can it...?
Its that easy yes, for the common single network configuration. |
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Post subject: Re: Configuring wireless manually
Posted: May 17, 2008 - 12:56 AM
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| btw. "Ceni" = Configure /etc/network/interfaces |
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Post subject: RE: Re: Configuring wireless manually
Posted: May 17, 2008 - 08:40 AM
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| Thanks for the input. It is always nice to find out that things you believe are complicated turn out to be much simpler than expected. |
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