Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

[BRM]

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> From: Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, BRM <bm_witness@×××××.com> wrote:
>>  I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC
> with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network
> already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet
> cable to my wireless bridge to get network access.
>>
>>  /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 starts, but goes immediately inactive. From what I
> can find on-line, this seems to have been something common after moving to Base
> Layout 2/OpenRC; however, I couldn't find anything that specified what the
> actual solution was - I think most ended up doing a complete reinstall of their
> wicd/wpa-supplicant software - either way details were lacking.  I've
> successfully had wpa-supplicant working in the past, and as a result of all of
> this I've tried to get it up through the other method too (iwconfig?), but
> no success. (I think I have managed to get it to scan some, but not sufficiently
> and certainly no connections.)
>
> Did you followed the instructions at
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
>
> specifically the network section?

Yes, I believe so. It's been a while since I made the migration, but the wireless configuration seems to have broken about the same time.

The wired configuration works just fine, and the guide mentions nothing about Wireless changes - e.g. WPA Supplicant - and that's where the problem is.
 
>>  Anyone see this issue and know what the solution is? I'd like to at
> least get my 802.11g access back - the current setup is a bit of a pain and very
> limiting.
>
> Since you use a laptop, I will assume you have either KDE, GNOME or
> Xfce. If that's the case, why don't you try NetworkManager or connman,
> and use the GUI thingy to do the work for you? I haven't manually
> configured a wireless network in years, and I have been the last three
> months traveling with my laptop literally all over the world,
> connecting to all kinds of access points.
> NetworkMnager just works, but I also hear great comments about connman.

I'm using KDE, yes. I've tried the tools but it doesn't seem to ever scan for a wireless network on its own, and the scans I have been able to force don't result in a connection - they don't even find the network I'm trying to attach it to.  Prior to the change, I could get WPA Supplicant to connect to my wireless, though I did have to have it specifically configured to do so. It wouldn't typically work using the tools for the one wireless network, while I could get it to for others (hotels, other places, etc.).

I have added another network that is configured a little differently that I would prefer to connect to (over the old one), but at the moment I'll take either. (The new 802.11g network uses WPA2; the old one uses WEP+Shared.)

Ben