Wireless management with wpa_supplicant. How?
Posted: 5. Aug 2011, 19:37
Because Wicd refuses to work right, I'm trying the old fashioned method, wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd. Only... That won't work either. And nobody on the internets seems to want to explain it.
So, does anyone know how I can:
- Set a passphrase for a SPECIFIC wireless network using wpa_supplicant, without having to manually edit the configuration file
- Associate with a SPECIFIC wireless network, instead of the strongest one in my vicinity
- Tell Salix to automatically run dhcpcd on wlan0 once I'm associated with a network?
P.S. Why on Earth is wifi via the command line so complicated? Why can't I just do something like
instead of having to muck around with badly documented daemons? Seriously?
So, does anyone know how I can:
- Set a passphrase for a SPECIFIC wireless network using wpa_supplicant, without having to manually edit the configuration file
- Associate with a SPECIFIC wireless network, instead of the strongest one in my vicinity
- Tell Salix to automatically run dhcpcd on wlan0 once I'm associated with a network?
P.S. Why on Earth is wifi via the command line so complicated? Why can't I just do something like
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iwconfig wlan0 essid [essid] key [password]
dhcpcd wlan0