On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:11:56PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
heh -- wpa_supplicant is 'lightly' documented, and the process for getting a wholly text mode wireless connection, and auto-selecting between open and secure with WPA or WPA2 AP's seems like a dark art. The following is from memory as the unit in question is not physically on, and not remotely reachable at the moment
Yes, I remember first researching it, and yes, it was a pain to find at the time. However, (ta da!!!) I have a page on setting it up--mostly written for Fedora users who were getting bitten by NetworkManager, but it goes through testing and setting wpa_supplicant.
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/wireless.html It's not exactly a step by step, and was made for a different purpose, but see if it works for you. (If the wpa.conf test file that I mention works, then just copy it over to replace the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf)
I have another page, that also covers it, as well as having a link to a more in depth tutorial--again, it was for a specific Fedora issue, but does go through (in the link to Mike's tutorial) a more detailed write up of setting up wpa_supplicant.conf.