Re: finding wpa-driver
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
Nevermind, it's wext, same as everyone else's…
Sorry for the noise,
E
> Hi,
>
> I've successfully (and surprisingly painlessly) installed debian
> (console only) on an old iBook G4.
>
> The only persistent problem is having WPA wireless start up at boot time. I
> understand that there is no longer a wpa_supplicant init item, and that
> it is loaded via /etc/network/interfaces, but I haven't got the correct
> configuration in place.
>
> Part of the problem, I believe, is that I got confused about drivers,
> and ended up installing several drivers for my wireless card. Now I
> don't know which one I'm using, and don't know what to list for
> "wpa-driver" in my /etc/network/interfaces. I had to get one called
> b43-legacy (as per instructions here:
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) before it would work, but
> I don't know the proper name of that driver; ie whatever "wpa-driver" is
> expecting to see. Looking at the output of dmesg hasn't helped any.
>
> Right now my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this:
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=dialout
>
> network…
>
> And that works correctly if I manually call wpa_supplicant from the
> command line, then run dhcpcd. My /etc/network/interfaces looks like
> this:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> auto wlan0 inet dhcp
> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> wpa-driver bcm43xx # my best guess, but still wrong
> wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> Any clues much appreciated!
>
> Yours,
> Eric
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