On 10/03/2014 07:21 AM, walt wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 09:39 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> Did you try "dhcpcd wlan0" to see if it gets an IP-address?
>
> That doesn't work (yet). An error message said that /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> was missing, so I copied this example from a man page:
>
> #cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
>
> network={
> ssid="myhomewireless"
> scan_ssid=1
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> psk="mypsk"
> }
>
> #dhcpcd wlan0
> dhcpcd[1415]: version 6.4.7 starting
> dhcpcd[1415]: wlan0: adding address fe80::f45c:642e:a392:f47c
> dhcpcd[1415]: if_addaddress6: Permission denied
> dhcpcd[1423]: wlan0: starting wpa_supplicant
> dhcpcd[1415]: wlan0: waiting for carrier
> dhcpcd[1415]: timed out
> dhcpcd[1415]: allowing 8 seconds for IPv4LL timeout
> dhcpcd[1415]: timed out
> dhcpcd[1415]: exited
>
> NetworkManager gets wlan0 working normally, but the problem is the
> network doesn't come up until I log in and use the NetworkManager
> panel applet to enter the psk manually. Ugh.
The Arch wiki was very helpful once I knew where to start looking:
The solution was to disable NetworkManager (per Alan's oft-posted advice)
and enable wpa_supplicant.service and dhcpcd.service. I suppose my earlier
wpa_supplicant problem was caused by a conflict with NetworkManager.
Many thanks to everyone who replied. Very helpful as always.
