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Zazzman
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 Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:50 am Post subject: SOLVED: wireless only install. wpa_supplicant issues. |
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So, I can't really even download the stage3 tarball or the portage tree yet, I'm booting from the minimal install disc.
Its an atheros card, so the first thing I do is , as the module is present. No output is presented when I do this.
contents of the /etc/wpa.conf file:
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#ap_scan=0
/* uncommenting causes wpa_supplicant to return an error about how the driver is not returning an ssid*/
network={
ssid="myssid"
psk="mypsk"
priority=5
}
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when I use the command | Code: | | wpa_supplicant -D nl80211,ath,madwifi -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa.conf |
ifconfig and iwconfig show it attaching to the network almost immediately, which the router verifies. However, the router isn't assigning an IP address to it, as the router verifies. While I do have access to the router, changing the encryption scheme becomes problematic as there are a number of other users on this network. Readmitting them all to the network with WEP instead of WPA-PSK would be incredibly time-intensive.
Also, I have yet to find a way to use wpa_cli without it returning an error where it "cannot connect to wpa_supplicant".
Strangely enough, LiveCDs don't allow for the kind of privilege escalation necessary to follow through with downloading a tarball to the hard drive. Is this universal among liveCDs?
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The Doctor
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:06 am Post subject: |
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Don't bother. Use the system rescue CD. Wireless networking using the Gentoo min is basically hopeless.
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cach0rr0
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Zazzman wrote: |
Strangely enough, LiveCDs don't allow for the kind of privilege escalation necessary to follow through with downloading a tarball to the hard drive. Is this universal among liveCDs? |
they should. either your partition was mounted in a screwy way, or, you simply needed to sudo su - before going to work.
| The Doctor wrote: | | Don't bother. Use the system rescue CD. Wireless networking using the Gentoo min is basically hopeless. |
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Zazzman
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| Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| cach0rr0 wrote: | | Zazzman wrote: |
Strangely enough, LiveCDs don't allow for the kind of privilege escalation necessary to follow through with downloading a tarball to the hard drive. Is this universal among liveCDs? |
they should. either your partition was mounted in a screwy way, or, you simply needed to sudo su - before going to work. |
Well, I learned something today; the Ubuntu disc is useless, and the Fedora disc wasn't terribly useful.
| cach0rr0 wrote: | | The Doctor wrote: | | Don't bother. Use the system rescue CD. Wireless networking using the Gentoo min is basically hopeless. |
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Yeah, banging my head against the wall for *hours* on that wasn't fun. This connects to the network easily enough, and the hard drive access is painless.
Thanks guys! So far, so good! |
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