On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Shivdas Gujare <shivdas.tech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to use Belkin Wireless G USB adapter(uses trl8187 driver) > on ARM board. I am tesing this with x86 and ARM board (BeagleBoard). > > My problem is, this adapter works fine with my Ubuntu > laptop(v2.6.29-rc2) using NetworkManager because of udev. > > I tried to run wpa_supplicant from command line as, > wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > It gives error "Failed to read or parse configuration > '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'" > Because, my laptop doesn't have /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file, But > still wireless network works fine. > > I don't have wpa_supplicant in ARM rootfs, hence want to know > Does wpa_supplicant is necessary to make this USB wireless adapter work? > > Also, is /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf necessary in rootfs, since device > works fine without this file on my laptop. Hmm, wpa_supplicant.conf contains security info, and wpa keys, etc and such. Are you on an open or WEP network? If so, you don't even need wpa_supplicant - just do iwconfig, etc. > > Thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Shivdas > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
