Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:05:56 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:33 +0200, Bzzzz wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:21:05 +0000 (UTC)
>> Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I can't connect to wifi at all.
> 
> Not quite true, it seems.  Now that I'm back at home, it connects to my
> home wifi just fine. So it looks as if I have trouble only when I want
> to connect to a different wifi than I connected to last time.  This even
> though before the upgrade it connected fine.
> 
> And aptitude will now talk to remte package repositories, at least when
> I'm at home.
> 
>> Check the status of wpa-supplicant and test w/ another wifi wrapper
>> (such as wifi-radar).
> 
> uh.  How do I check that status?  And how do I test with wifi-radar.
> What I'm using, as far as I know, is the network manager, that
> apparently being the default for xfce.

Well, wifi-radar is available as a Debian package (though I can't find a 
wifi-supplicant package), and I found the wifi-radar wiki, so I suppose I 
can try that when I'm at the coffee shop next week.  Or make a special 
trip.  Testing it at home won't work -- everything works at home now.

Since my last upgrade, aptitude seems to report there another 200-odd 
packages have arrived for me to upgrade.  Any chance that would help?  Or 
would it make things worse or more confusing?

-- hendrik



> 
> -- hendrik