On Friday 24 February 2006 01:56 am, ken wrote:
kai wrote:
Okay, well, when I go into KInternet, there's no place for a WPA password. It only gives you the option of typing in a WEP password.
Suse Pro 9.3 GUI configgers didn't do it for me. (I've found this to be very often true of GUIs in general.) (Now don't get me wrong... GUIs are fine most of the time... they just need to make sense and do the job.)
Well, yes. When we write an app - either GUI or command line - it should. I'm kind of disappointed that the KInternet tool doesn't.
Had to go into /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* files and hand-edit things.
See, now that just sucks. I hate having to go tweak files. Gives me about the same amount of warm fuzzies as I had while using regedit in the hkey_local_machine hive.
Sparce and vague docs meant quite a bit of guesswork and assumptions, reading through ../scripts and testing (of course). Getting it configured correctly wasn't a straight-line process, so (sorry) I can't delineate a finite series of steps. I may not have configured it in the best possible way either, but it works for me and works reliably.
Maybe this is an area I can contribute to. I'll look into it.
Here's some ifcfg-* values that are probably right:
<snip> Okay, I'll follow your advice and see what I can get. I'd really rather have WPA encryption since I have WEP crackers which work pretty well against "test" networks. :) -- kai www.perfectreign.com <?=$OffensiveSignature?>