----- Original Message ----- > From: Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... > OK, so if you restore the two lines and this error goes away, can you then > initialise the device without any other errors?
So far as I am aware. > Assuming that rfkill shows all is unlocked and the device active, what does > iwlist wlan0 scan show now? The output I quoted was from that configuration. ----- Original Message ----- > From: Moritz Schlarb <m...@moritz-schlarb.de> > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless Configuration... > Am 07.09.2011 16:06, schrieb Michael Mol: >> I believe NetworkManager provides WPA supplicant functionlaity, so I >> don't think you need wpa_supplicant if you have NetworkManager. > It's >> been a *long* time (about five years) since I messed with wireless >> configuration daemons, though. Lots of things can change in that time, >> including memory... > > I don't think so! NetworkManager generates a configuration file on the > fly for wpa_supplicant, so you still need it, you just don't need to > configure it anywhere else than NetworkManager! So NetworkManager/KNetworkManager generates a wpa_supplicant.conf on the fly to use, thereby ignoring the one in /etc/wpa_supplicant? Would it then be correct that it also ignores the settings in /etc/conf.d/net? Ben
