On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:55:29 +0200
Didier Kryn <[email protected]> wrote:

>     Anyway, wpa_supplicant.conf needs the following instructions:
> 
> ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=dialout
> update_config=1
> 
>     You can choose a different group, and you should make yourself a
> member of this group.
> 
hi.   Two newbie questions.  I've just bought an E14 Thinkpad, onto
which i installed Beowulf.  However, I needed to pull the microcode and
wireless firmware from ceres to connect via wlan0.  wicd just doesn't
work, and I failed to make it work using wpa_supplicant, although this
was before Didier posted the above. However, this morning, i got it up
and running using this link

https://superuser.com/questions/986239/no-dhcp-lease-with-wlan0 

pkill dhclient 
pkill wpa_supplicant
 wpa_passphrase "TheNameOfMyNetwork" "MySecretPassword" > wpa.conf
 ip link set dev wlan0 down
 ip addr flush dev wlan0
 ip link set dev wlan0 up
 wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -Dnl80211 -c wpa.conf
 dhclient -v wlan0

So newbie question 1:  How different to the wpa_supplicant processes
currently being discussed is this process?

And Q2: I am now running a hybrid Beowulf/Ceres installation.  Should I
remove the Beowulf repositories from the sources.list and replace them
with either Chimaera or Ceres?  And then upgrade or dist-upgrade? I'd
be happy to run a testing release, but for this machine, security is
more important than stability.  It will be running proprietary
software, mostly from the Google stable; it's main function will be
video-conferencing.

Many thanks

fraser
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