On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:28:41 +0000 (UTC) Hendrik Boom sent:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:05:56 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:33 +0200, Bzzzz wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:21:05 +0000 (UTC)
> >> Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I can't connect to wifi at all.
> >
> > Not quite true, it seems. Now that I'm back at home, it connects
> > to my home wifi just fine. So it looks as if I have trouble only
> > when I want to connect to a different wifi than I connected to last
> > time. This even though before the upgrade it connected fine.
> >
> > And aptitude will now talk to remte package repositories, at least
> > when I'm at home.
> >
> >> Check the status of wpa-supplicant and test w/ another wifi wrapper
> >> (such as wifi-radar).
> >
> > uh. How do I check that status? And how do I test with wifi-radar.
> > What I'm using, as far as I know, is the network manager, that
> > apparently being the default for xfce.
>
> Well, wifi-radar is available as a Debian package (though I can't
> find a wifi-supplicant package), and I found the wifi-radar wiki, so
> I suppose I can try that when I'm at the coffee shop next week. Or
> make a special trip. Testing it at home won't work -- everything
> works at home now.
# apt-get install wpasupplicant
>
> Since my last upgrade, aptitude seems to report there another 200-odd
> packages have arrived for me to upgrade. Any chance that would
> help? Or would it make things worse or more confusing?
>
> -- hendrik
HTH
Charlie
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