Hi Allen,
maybe you should use wpa_supplicant. I tried this some time ago (at SL 6.4) and it worked on runlevel 3. You can find a HowTo at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant
I'm not sure if it works with SL 5.5 but it should be worth a try.
Regards
Stephan
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 08. Oktober 2014 um 12:11 Uhr
Von: "David Sommerseth" <[email protected]>
An: "Allen Wilkinson" <[email protected]>
Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS <[email protected]>
Betreff: Re: How to do WPA wifi authentication at run level 3 on SL 5.5 ?
Von: "David Sommerseth" <[email protected]>
An: "Allen Wilkinson" <[email protected]>
Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS <[email protected]>
Betreff: Re: How to do WPA wifi authentication at run level 3 on SL 5.5 ?
On 08/10/14 04:30, Allen Wilkinson wrote:
> David,
>
> Key question is how do I configure network connections with
> NetworkManager from the command line?
Ahh! I see. IIRC, nmcli in EL5 does not support that. I believe there
is some support for it in EL6 and even more in EL7. But for EL5, I
believe you need to dig into the configuration files in /etc/NetworkManager.
I'm sorry, I have only two production boxes left with EL5, and neither
of them use NetworkManager, so it's hard for me to point you further.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, David Sommerseth wrote:
>
>> On 07/10/14 13:55, Allen Wilkinson wrote:
>>> I could use help on the SUBJECT problem.
>>>
>>> This is for an old laptop that uses the ipw2200 wifi driver.
>>> It assigns the wifi to eth1.
>>>
>>> eth0 for wired Ethernet is active okay, and I want eth1 active at the
>>> same time.
>>>
>>> ifup eth1 seems to only allow WEP keys successfully.
>>> NetworkManager never seems to connect at run level 3 using WPA for any
>>> configuration that I can figure out. nm-tool does show WPA should be
>>> possible.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Allen,
>>
>> If you already have configured the network connections using
>> NetworkManager, it should be fairly possible to start the wireless
>> network using 'nmcli'. That's a command line tool for Network Manager.
>>
>> You most likely need to play around with 'nmcli con'. F.ex. I have a
>> wirelss config called 'home'. So to connect from the command line, I do
>> this:
>>
>> [user@host:~] $ nmcli con up id home
>>
>> I'll admit, it's a long time since I played with EL5, so it might not be
>> fully supported. But on EL6 and newer, this is possible.
>>
>>
>> --
>> kind regards,
>>
>> David Sommerseth
>>
> David,
>
> Key question is how do I configure network connections with
> NetworkManager from the command line?
Ahh! I see. IIRC, nmcli in EL5 does not support that. I believe there
is some support for it in EL6 and even more in EL7. But for EL5, I
believe you need to dig into the configuration files in /etc/NetworkManager.
I'm sorry, I have only two production boxes left with EL5, and neither
of them use NetworkManager, so it's hard for me to point you further.
--
kind regards,
David Sommerseth
> On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, David Sommerseth wrote:
>
>> On 07/10/14 13:55, Allen Wilkinson wrote:
>>> I could use help on the SUBJECT problem.
>>>
>>> This is for an old laptop that uses the ipw2200 wifi driver.
>>> It assigns the wifi to eth1.
>>>
>>> eth0 for wired Ethernet is active okay, and I want eth1 active at the
>>> same time.
>>>
>>> ifup eth1 seems to only allow WEP keys successfully.
>>> NetworkManager never seems to connect at run level 3 using WPA for any
>>> configuration that I can figure out. nm-tool does show WPA should be
>>> possible.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Allen,
>>
>> If you already have configured the network connections using
>> NetworkManager, it should be fairly possible to start the wireless
>> network using 'nmcli'. That's a command line tool for Network Manager.
>>
>> You most likely need to play around with 'nmcli con'. F.ex. I have a
>> wirelss config called 'home'. So to connect from the command line, I do
>> this:
>>
>> [user@host:~] $ nmcli con up id home
>>
>> I'll admit, it's a long time since I played with EL5, so it might not be
>> fully supported. But on EL6 and newer, this is possible.
>>
>>
>> --
>> kind regards,
>>
>> David Sommerseth
>>
