On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 19:32:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2016 19:00:02 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 04 Jul 2016 at 18:30:47 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > root@debian-wheezy:/home/sarah# wpa-cli > > > bash: wpa-cli: command not found > > > > Do you think I would deliberately give a command which does not exist? > > Try using a bit of common or garden. It's a typo. > > No, of course not. That didn't even cross my mind. I thought that there > must > be a package that I needed and didn't have installed and spent ages trying to > find it. I did eventually spot the typo because the twice you had typed it > were different. But detail is genuinely difficult for me to see - I only > spotted it when I thought that I must have done a typo because the package > was so unfindable.
Sorry. I was being contentious and grumpy. I prefer my contentious side :) > > [...Snip...] > > > > > Selected interface 'wlan0' > > > > Fine. > > > > > Interactive mode > > > > > > <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS > > > > > > > add_network > > > > > > 0 > > > > Ok. > > > > > <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS > > > > > > > set_network 0 ssid NETGEAR08 > > > > > > FAIL > > > > Look at what I typed. I was particularly careful at this point and > > nearly warned about leaving things out. > > <quote> > set_network 0 ssid "Your_SSID" > </quote> > > What did I leave out that I should not have left out/not leave out that I > should have left out? The quotation marks, I suppose. :-( Otherwise it > would probably have been <your_SSID>? The quotation marks. They are required. <your_SSID> being correct could be checked with "scan" and "scan_results". > > > I'm stuck. Or out of my depth. Or drowning. Or all three. :-( But > > > there seesm ot be a problem with my SSID Not set by me - perhaps I > > > should change > > > > There is no problem with your SSID. > > OK.. PEBCAK. But enlighten me so that I perhaps succeed in learning. > > I could do with knowing this in general, not just for this specific case. > > Thanks for the help. I either try and make a fool of myself, or learn > nothing. You are not making a fool of yourself. I think the question is whether the network card is functioning. If the technique I have advocated does not produce association it becomes a possibility. Either that or the access point is malfunctioning. You cannot get any lower investigatory method than this without killing yourself with 0s and 1s. Personally, I am interested in the outcome that wpa_cli produces. (Notice I remembered the "_". :)
