[Gllug] wireless setup

[Diana Scott]

I have used  sudo apt-get install wpagui to install wpagui and also used sudo gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to find and enter the password.

When I used  wpa_gui
Failed to open control connection to wpa_supplicant.
PING failed - trying to reconnect
PING failed - trying to reconnect
PING failed - trying to reconnect
PING failed - trying to reconnect
PING failed - trying to reconnect
PING failed - trying to reconnect

A box came up said "could not get status from wpa_supplicant and all the spaces under surrent status for adopters, network , ssid , ip address are blanked out.

Do you know what have I done wrong ?

Please advise.

Diana



> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:35:45 +0000
> From: itsbruce at workshy.org
> To: gllug at gllug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] wireless setup
> 
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:26:21PM +0000, Diana wrote:
> > 
> > The iwconfig of the laptop is 
> > iwconfig eth1
> > eth1      unassociated  ESSID:off/any  
> >           Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: Not-Associated   
> >           Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   Sensitivity=8/0  
> >           Retry limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> >           Power Management:off
> >           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
> >           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
> >           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> > 
> > Please advise.
> 
> As somebody else said, wpa_supplicant is a recommended tool for wireless
> cards.  It can cope with wpa, wpa2, multiple profiles based on ssid etc.
> There are several GUI tools that will do the hard work for you if you
> can provide the basic parameters (e.g. wpa2, private key, ssid).  wpagui
> is one.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce
> 
> Hierophant: someone who remembers, when you are on the way down,
> everything you did to them on the way up.

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