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December 28, 2005

Typing this under Linux, with wireless

So, it looks like I did not have to scratch my head to have the latest and brightest version of wpa supplicant installed in order to have my wireless working.

I did download it, managed to compile it...

But then the new kernel version was out. I tried it with the old wpa supplicant, and it was working.

Do you want to do it too?

Very easy
sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant
sudo gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and put in your settings (some reading required to figure out what to put there)

For me, since my laptop has has ipw2200 card:
sudo wpa_supplicant -ieth0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dipw

Afterwards, I unplugged my ethernet card, then ran
sudo network-admin and set eth0 as my default gateway.

Finally, since I could only ping up to my router,
sudo dhclient

And everything was working fine afterwards.

I now just need to put that in the computer initilization scripts so that it happens automatically at each bootup :D


The good news is that I'll be doing most of my work from Linux now (assuming all works right), ,instead of Windows. My geek side is happy triumphant now!

Posted by ma at December 28, 2005 9:06 AM in Software

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