Playing with a spin-off

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mimosa
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Re: Playing with a spin-off

Post by mimosa »

Try installing wicd, or network maanger, and all their dependencies (though you might want to weed out the graphical ones I suppose). Both can be used from the CLI.

Or perhaps if you just look at the deps, you will see something that leaps out at you.
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Re: Playing with a spin-off

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The only thing missing is the drivers. Ifconfig, iwconfig, and wpa_supplicant all appear to be fully functional, they give me plenty of feedback when I issue commands. I suspect the problem is that my config file isn't fully developed. I just have the bit concerning the ssid and passkey. I can see the information on the wlan0 card I just can't get it to send and receive.

I ran this command;

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basename $( readlink /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver )
and found out I have the ath9k driver on this laptop. This is the same laptop I had a fully functional Salix install on just a while ago but now wpa_supplicant is telling me this is not a supported driver. I get the same response from the firmware I installed from the iso.

I didn't know wicd could be run from the command line. I'll install it since I know it worked before. Thanks.
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