Dear yamal,
the following I'm far away to see it as your fault, but be so kind to
read it nevertheless (and give it away to eventually more powerfull
guys) and forgive my english, as I'm no native speaker.
After fresh install on iBook-G4 I load bcm-fw-cutter and install my
Airport2 (from kext of Dual-G5, the only that worked for me till now,
but after a hint in forums I will try one times more apsta.o ) as in
that machine is the dammned BCM4318, the guys of ubuntu don't bring to
work. After 10 years of dilletantism with opensource I was first pleased
of YellowDog, then more by ubuntu. (Long time ago I typed Programs with
about 5 ? or were ist 6 lines, so I see there's missing clear concepts):
NETWORKING wifi (WLAN) and others should have an option for stopping and
starting services (maybe I dont want some time not to be on air) . When
eth2 (by an USB-WiFi-Stick ) is up I can get on the iBook-G3 ! a
WPA-crypted connection with my Extreme Base station. On iBook-G4 and G3
eth1 or eth2 resp. wlan0 are often shot off, so it is impossible to put
in "rate 11M" in iwconfig. I have the suspicion, that with correct
entrys in iwconfig Network-selector (in menubar) is not able to read the
name out of iwconfig, as it shows immediately more or less "stairs" when
putting in the ESSID in iwconfig, but no lower green button, when trying
to connect with WPA2. Sometimes even keyboard is shot off, so you can
not type anything more in iwconfig. And especially there is the crude
11Mb/s-problem; even if iwconfig works with all other entries, it will
not take "rate 11M" .
The further : shall wifi get its password by keyring (in wich way is
a second ore third net-name treated ?) or by entry in the often
nevertheless upcoming password-question from network ?
WEP with iwconfig is (after the fiddling with iwconfig / mostly)
without problems although mostly unlocked nets are shown in iwconfig
instead of my nets (Airport.old or Extreme), what I would prefer (Why
can one not choose between some default-nets or the most strong available?)
With all that a non-root-user isn't able to work. ( instead of
keyring there should be a point for WiFi/WLAN in the groups & users
-permissions-list)
UPDATING: (german Aktualisierungsverwaltung)
The rough idea there is to say first of all : "your system is up to
date" and some more .... before I started download for comparing the
status. << imho thats nonsense >> It should be "you now can test your
system"
paket-information is downloaded (is ok )
installing the "actualisations" ( ok )
now ! you can say "your system was (after that last update maybe 5
seconds ago) up to date"
Searching another time afterwards (imho) : nonsense ! you did it
just !
Mostly I'm an OS-X.3.9 -user. And alas ! also Apple makes mistakes I
find afer an hour. So I will be patient and try ubuntu and Yellow dog
(less hard than the last 6 months) again for a while.
Sincerely Peter
Oh another answer to your questions : after BCM43xx I go to "network"
(menu-bar : System - admin - network) and make my entries there.
Furthermore I activate avahi-services. Thats all, as then network
selector appears near calendar in menubar.
I will keep my system for about a week for further of your questions -
then do a fresh install. ( I know, that Macs are a bit the other way
round in programming as PC so I waited for solutions; some were found
<sound eg. >)
The driver name was (up to some weeks ago) shown as BCM43.. or so . So I
felt no need to that entry and don't know where neither the syntax. It's
boring enough, that terminal keeps all old entry without sorting (first
= last used) or throwing away duplicates !
Peter
yamal schrieb:
> The command line contains obvious errors: the -D (driver name) option
> requires a parameter (typically "wext") which is missing. Additionally,
> at the end there's an option "wlan0" that probably shouldn't be there.
>
> How are you starting wpa_supplicant? Directly/manually or via some
> network configuration program?
>
> ** Changed in: wpasupplicant (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
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