Hello, I have a PS3 which connects without problems to the wireless network from the GameOS XMB but when I boot it into YellowDog 6.1 which came preinstalled on my system it cannot connect to the same wireless access point which is in my home. Here is what I do to connect:
I click on the YDL Button in the upper left-hand corner and then select Applications -> Internet -> Wicd Network Manager (Network Manager) which starts the Wicd 1.5.3 program from wicd.sf.net and it offers me the a list of access points among which mine is of the following form: > foonet 62% WPA2 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF Under Advanced Settings for the foonet access point I check the "Use Encryption" box and select the default "WPA 1/2 Passphrase" from the drop-down menu and then in the "Key" textbox I enter the same passphrase which I used to connect the GameOS to my home's wireless access point (say foopassword). When I try to connect from wicd to the wireless router/access point I see wicd go through the following stages: None: Putting interface down... foonet: Validating authentication... foonet: Obtaining IP address... and at this stage wicd waits for ever in the Obtaining IP address phase. I don't know what's wrong. When I type ifconfig at a shell prompt I see the interface wlan0. I can also see two other access points belonging to two of my neighbors with one using plain WPA and the other WEP. Any idea what is wrong here? Is it that the version of wicd that came with YDL 6.1 only supports WPA and not WPA2 or something? Any ideas? Should I disable WPA completely on the router just to get connected, then update wicd or something, and switch WPA2 back on, or should I update the whole system to YDL 6.2 (which I recall claims to have better Wi-Fi support)? Any help with this issue is appreciated? Also, I've inserted a USB key in one of the two ports but have not found any mount points under /mnt after this. I thought a program called automount would take care of this. Any ideas on how I can mount the USB key? I wanted to copy the output of ifconfig on my box and post it here but I really don't know how to mount a USB pen drive. Many thanks. Finally, is there any chance of using the PS3 DualShock3 game controller as an input device under Linux or does this require that a major device driver be written? I would really like to use it under Linux as well. Thanks for all your help! John Goche
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