wpa_gui wont work

[ALF__]

Hello.


Trying to get the nightmare of wireless lan to work on a fresh laptop install.

Trying to start wpa_gui, and it windows opens up, but nothing more shows, and i get this:


QnativeImage: Unable to attach to shared memory segment.

Followed by many:

X Error: BadDrawable (Invalid pixmap or window parameter) 9
Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)



Any ideas?

[Tractor Girl]

Here's simple config. No need for gui. Modify it for your needs.

/etc/conf.d/net

[ALF__]

Thanks. I will try that.

Though my card have gotten i really long name

After editing those files. What do i need to do to make it run? Like ifconfig up or something simmiliar?

Also, for using dhcp, what changes is needed?

[Tractor Girl]

For dhcp your /etc/conf.d/net should probably look like this:

[szatox]

The way suggested here uses old-good netifrc, so you must create link named "net.<your interface name>" pointing at "net.lo", both located in /etc/init.d/
You start your interface like any other service started with init system, e.g. "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 s tart" will apply predefined config to wlan0.
Good, easy way to make it work with static configuration, however since you mentioned laptop I suppose you're going to move it around a bit, so networkmanager or some other stuff doing the same job in graphic mode and without root permissions is likely to be preferable.
You can define multiple networks in wpa_supplicant's config and let it pick the one in range though, so if you only move between several, known locations, changing configs manually might be significantly less pain than it appears.

[khayyam]

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