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