Le 18/09/2020 à 13:44, Le Loft a écrit : > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:55:29 +0200 > Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > >> Anyway, wpa_supplicant.conf needs the following instructions: >> >> ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=dialout >> update_config=1 >> >> You can choose a different group, and you should make yourself a >> member of this group. >> > hi. Two newbie questions. I've just bought an E14 Thinkpad, onto > which i installed Beowulf. However, I needed to pull the microcode and > wireless firmware from ceres to connect via wlan0. wicd just doesn't > work, and I failed to make it work using wpa_supplicant, although this > was before Didier posted the above. However, this morning, i got it up > and running using this link > > https://superuser.com/questions/986239/no-dhcp-lease-with-wlan0 > > pkill dhclient > pkill wpa_supplicant > wpa_passphrase "TheNameOfMyNetwork" "MySecretPassword" > wpa.conf > ip link set dev wlan0 down > ip addr flush dev wlan0 > ip link set dev wlan0 up > wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -Dnl80211 -c wpa.conf > dhclient -v wlan0 > > So newbie question 1: How different to the wpa_supplicant processes > currently being discussed is this process? > > And Q2: I am now running a hybrid Beowulf/Ceres installation. Should I > remove the Beowulf repositories from the sources.list and replace them > with either Chimaera or Ceres? And then upgrade or dist-upgrade? I'd > be happy to run a testing release, but for this machine, security is > more important than stability. It will be running proprietary > software, mostly from the Google stable; it's main function will be > video-conferencing.
First time I hear of wpa_passphrase. This was my missing brick to configure wpa_supplicant by hand and the first reason I absolutely needed wpa_gui, because wpa_gui converts silently the psk. -- Didier _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
