Re: wicd with WPA2 fails

[Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:25:26PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2010-07-15 12:15 +0200, Paul Scott wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:40:27AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> 
> >> It might be better to put away wicd for a moment and invoke
> >> wpa_supplicant directly with the -d switch.  You may have to set the
> >> ssid first with iwconfig(8).
> >
> > I have read the man page.  I apparently need a valid wpa_supplicant.conf file.  The only one 
> > I can find (/etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa...) doesn't seem to be valid.  I get lots of errors 
> > about that file when I supply the -D -i and -c parameters.
> 
> There are several sample configuration files in the
> /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/examples directory.  The wpa-psk-tkip.conf
> file could be a good starting point.
> 

Thanks.  I'll try that in a few hours.

Paul