Re: wicd with WPA2 fails

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2010-07-15, Paul Scott <waterhorse@ultrasw.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:40:27AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
<SNIP>
>> 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.
>

I haven't used wicd for a while, but I recall that it writes its own
wpa_supplicant.conf file based on the settings you provide in the UI.
Try looking under /etc/wicd.

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Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland