Thank you Brian and Raf- I learned several things from both of you, and I really appreciate it :-) It took me several hours with your help- without your help I would still be struggling with it.
Turns out, Brian was right to warn me about making sure I was using the correct interface- I was not. Turns out that the wireless is eth1, not eth0. I have it working now with the wext driver- it would not work with the nl80211 driver. I can confirm that the wpa_supplicant.conf file is not needed in this very simple setup. Thanks Raf for confirming that I will need it for setting up roaming (when I get to that). I'd like to ask one more question, not sure if I should start a new thread for it since it is related to debugging the situation: If I boot the machine with the Ethernet connected, the system uses that connection via eth0. If I unplug the Ethernet I then can't get the wireless to work unless I reboot. I have tried: /etc/init.d/networking stop|start as well as ifdown eth1 ifup eth1 but still the wireless doesn't connect. How do I "reset" it or somehow configure the system to use the wireless subsequent to having the Ethernet pulled out, without rebooting the system? Thanks, Keith > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:46:25AM BST, Brian wrote: >> As Raf Czlonka has already said, using /etc/network/interfaces and its >> integration with wpa_supplicant is the way to go. You do not even need a >> wpa_supplicant.conf file. > > You don't, for simple setup that is indeed enough. > If you have several wireless networks you can keep your interfaces file > tidy and organised, not to mention that roaming mode won't work without > wpa_supplicant.conf file. > >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> wpa-ssid myssid >> wpa-psk passphrase > > I also recommend actual PSK rather than passphrase. > > man wpa_passphrase. > > Regards, > -- > Raf > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2f609a15bac2b8e5c71273271702ab14.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
