Re: Network Interface Conundrum

TuxaneMedia <[email protected]>
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Am 22.09.2012 22:48, schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
>
>> What's the output of "ifconfig -a" ?
>
>   It shows lo and eth0 UP, wlan0 down. During boot wlan0 tries to come
> up,
> finds no network, and dies. After booting, however, wicd-client shows 4
> neighborhood access points. (I don't try to connect to them because
> they're
> all protected, and I took down the wireless AP here and ran an ethernet
> cable through the house instead.)
>
> Rich
>
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In WICD you need to configure and save your security settings before you
connect to the AP.

Select your AP go to sth like "advanced or configure" (don't have wicd
runing right now) and type in your wpa/wpa2 key, then connect to the AP.

Another issue is sometimes the hard/softblocking of wlan0 , where
hardblocking is the wifi-switch and softblocking may be a disabled
network card.

You can check this with 'rfkill' : Try 'rfkill list ALL' and 'rfkill
unblock ALL'

Jens
 

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