linux networking ethernet and wireless

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 12:19:46AM -0500, teddy mills wrote:
> While trying to get linux wireless to work, something easy to forget is
> the DHCP server.  For many Linux distros the sudo command, "pump" should
> work.
> 
> I use KWifiManager, to get an idea of what the connection rate is.
> I use ping to see how reliable the connection is, how many dropped
> packets etc.
> 
> Has anyone used the WPA_Supplicant over wireless yet, and made a WPA
> connection?

I have tried that, and it does connect.  You have to do all the steps
again if you ever drop the connection for a moment though.  There didn't
seem to be any daemon around to auto reconnecting with wpa.  I kinda
gave up at that point (having never been a wireless fan) and let my wife
go back to windows until some day someone makes wireless actually make
sense on linux.

Writing a script to check if it can ping the gateway, and if not run:
wpa_suplicant
dhcpclient
some other step in there I don't recall

... is just too ugly a hack for me to accept.

And my wife thinks I should move my computer elsewhere in the house and
get a wireless connection for it.  I don't think so. :)

Len Sorensen
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