Configuring wlan. [SOLVED]

ferrelas · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 109

I've been trying to configure wlan on my laptop and this is the greatest hell that's ever been. I've gotten it working a few times with networkmanager so I know that my hardware is working, but it's always been very hard to convince networkmanager of this. I've setup wpa_supplicant too and it seems to work, I get connected and all, but no ip, and when I run dhcpcd on wlan0 I get an ip but it doesn't work still. :/

Raniz · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

I've had my struggles with Networkmanager and WPA Supplicant aswell and unless you absolutely have to use Networkmanager I'd recommend you to try Wicd instead, I've been using it ever since I tried it the first time and I'm really happy with it. It's got a nice GUI written in QT and handles both wireless and wired connections with ease.

The easiest way to prevent net.eth0 from starting during startup is to remove it, that works well if you're using Wicd. I don't remember if Networkmanager handles wired connections aswell, if it doesn't you still need the net.eth0 symlink and I don't remember how to prevent it from starting automatically

ferrelas · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 109

That worked like a charm, I can even begin to descibe how awesome you are for telling me this.

Found out wich config file it was (/etc/conf.d/rc) from the message when installing wicd too.

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Raniz · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:28 pm Post subject:

Glad you liked it, wicd is not that widespread (which is sad since it's the best network manager I've seen).

Tack, finns ingen anledning att vara i Lund om man inte pluggar :p