On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:52:19 -0800 William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2021 14:26:22 E. Liddell wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 11:40:26 -0800 > > > Is wpa_supplicant installed, or are you genuinely trying to configure > > everything via wireless_tools (iw*)? > > > > E. Liddell > > I didn't want anybody to think ill of me, that I was averse to new > experiences, so I poked around and found that wpa_supplicant has a wpa_gui. > So I fired it up, entered all the necessary information, shared key, etc., > and I get a message "Could not get status from wpa_supplicant". Did you have the daemon running in the background? The various configurators for wpa_supplicant act as clients with the daemon as a server. Back to basics. Your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file should contain a line that sets ctrl_interface to something (no idea what the recommendations for your distro are), and one that says "update_config=1". Open two konsole (or whatever) windows. In one, issue (tack on sudo if required): # killall wpa_supplicant # wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd That should restart the daemon in the foreground in debug mode. In the other konsole: # wpa_cli Unless some error message pops up in the boilerplate, at the new prompt say "scan" and then "scan_results". If at that point, it gives you an ugly table of SSIDs, everything is working as it should, and you can tell it "quit" and try wpa_gui again. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
