Re: PSK error in wicd-1.7.0

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:40:14AM +0100,
   Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 15:21:16 -0800 (PST)
> Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What should I be doing with wpa_supplicant to help find the 
> > reason for this problem?
> 
> Basically, you need it to make a config based on a passphrase,
> so you need to call something along the lines of:
> wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase]
> - and to output it to a file:
> wpa_passphrase <ssid> [passphrase] > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> Wpa_supplicant will use the following syntax:
>   wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> In that phrase, 
> -Dwext specifies the driver wext,
> -iwlan0 specifies the interface wlan0
> -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf specifies the config
> file /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, which you can call whatever you
> want when you generate it with wpa_passphrase - as long as you
> reference the right file in your wpa_supplicant line.
> 
> When you have called this command, it will (hopefully) connect
> to the network and associate. Once that is in order, you can
> summon dhcpcd to get an IP address.

Nothing to nitpick in all of that, except one possibly relevant 
detail: when using wicd, isn't /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ignored?
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