[shr-u] wifi timeout with mokonnect

Adam Jimerson vendion at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 17:24:17 CEST 2009


On Thursday 13 August 2009 10:55:38 am arne anka wrote:
> >> I know that wpa_supplicant doesn't handle DHCP but when I was using it
> >> then
> >> the ifup command would say that it connected, didn't return an error,
> >> but DHCP
> >> would always fail but it never did this before.
> >
> > "ifup" command is unnecessary here and quite possibly messes something
> > up.
>
> ok, i bite.
>
> _how_ is it supposed to be done?
> enabling wifi manually is not advised
> ifup is not necessary and might be messing up.
>
> please, paul, give me (and probably others too) a plain working example
> how to get up and down wifi repeatedly and reliable.
> i don't have mokoconnect available, connman does not work for me on debian
> and the two or three other managers mentioned here and there are not
> available to me.
> the most basic way would probably be
> /etc/network/interfaces
> so, how should that file loook like, how (if ifup is not advisable) is the
> iface to get up and down?
>

Same here I would like to know how to connect to a network without using the 
ifconfig commands
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than only freedom can make security more secure."  Karl Popper
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