On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 15:31:21 +0100 lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:38:04PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 23:18:42 +0100 > > lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > > > Hm, at least wicd seems to have set the ESSID and to have found a > > > cell. > > > > ?? This output has nothing to do with wicd. > > Not exactly, but it was one of the programs I tried out, and > apparently it left the device like half configured.
No. The output that I was commenting on was just the scan results from running 'iwlist wlan0 scan'. That command simply tells you what other wireless stations the card sees, and says *nothing at all* about your card's configuration. ... > > AFAIK, Debian doesn't modify wpa_supplicant, but when you properly > > configure /etc/network/interfaces, then the Debian network scripts will > > create the appropriate wpa_supplicant config file (on the fly?) and > > properly invoke wpa_supplicant, pointing it at the appropriate config > > file. When this works, you can see what Debian's done by grepping > > through the output of 'ps ax' for 'wpa_supplicant'. > > It seems that Debian has provided scripts that read entries from > /etc/network/interfaces and then use wpa_supplicant to set > up the wireless networking accordingly. That way, there is no need for > a wpa_supplicant.conf. That's what I just said ;) > And it's working fine now :) It's even pretty easy once you know how > to do it, but this was the first time I've set up a wireless > card/connection. Maybe I can improve on the documentation in the > Debian wiki ... and make an article about setting up this particular > network card or something ... Great! Glad you got it working. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
