Is it possible to activate WPA-PSK using only programs that are on the Hardy distribution disk? I understand there are programs such as wlanassistant that can do the job, but I can't find any that are already built in. KNetworkManager supports only WEP. wpa_supplicant is already available. And of course, if I don't already have a working connection I can't download anything at all.
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Re: WPA-PSK without a hardwired connection to get started
Edit /etc/network/interfaces so it looks like this
auto lo wlan0
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid your ssid
wpa-psk your passkey
Save it. Then look in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Make sure it says
[ifupdown]
managed=false
This last one tell Network-Manager to leave interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces alone. You then need to restart Network-Manager (nm-tool might do that) so it knows to leave wlan0 alone and stqart the interface via ifup. Options for that are;
reboot
or
sudo invoke-rc.d NetworkManager force-reload
or
ps ax | grep Network shows something like
2586 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
so you do
sudo kill -HUP 2586
followed by
sudo ifup wlan0
You may get a messsage that wlan0 is already configured. If so try
sudo ifdown wlan0
and then see if you can ifup it. If you still get that message try
sudo ifconfig down wlan0
and then try ifup again.
You should now be getting something.
There are other options that you can use in the interfaces file but you probably will not need them.
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wpa_supplicant
I also need to start up wpa_supplicant and make sure it starts on every reboot, no?Comment
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Re: WPA-PSK without a hardwired connection to get started
No. Debian has an entire system of cleanly bringing up and shutting down networks using a package called ifupdown. It is called from the init system. If will use wpa_supplicant to configure the interfaces described in /etc/network/interfaces. The only thing I have even the slightest doubt about is the configuration of your access point.
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