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Activate wireless from within shell
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Post # 298334
 Re: Activate wireless from within shellgood evening,
I've been away in Afghanistan for a while but now am back and really want to solve this issue. In the MEPIS Network Manager, wlan0 is started but will not connect. It finds the router (SKY 60875) but will not connect. It is WPA2 encrypted but on putting in the passphrase, nothing happens. I have tried to restart the network but nothing happens. The network will connect through eth0 (cable) but that's it. I have tried everything mentioned in the posts above using the command line. The network is found no problem at all but I just can't seem to connect to it. Any ideas? |
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| Fri Apr 06, 2012 4:29 pm |
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Post # 298337
Re: Activate wireless from within shell done!
Outstanding. By setting MEPIS Network Manager to 'manual' and then running wicd-gtk, I am able to connect with wireless for the first time in a year! |
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| Fri Apr 06, 2012 5:39 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9178 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2714 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 298345
Re: Activate wireless from within shell Usually I read about someone having to remove Network Manager. Your solution is actually easier.
 _________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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| Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:50 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:07 pm Posts: 7357 Location: Skullcrusher Mountain, Santee, CA USA Has thanked: 322 times Have thanks: 1187 times
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Post # 298353
Re: Activate wireless from within shell Ceni from the community repo is also a very good alternative, even more so if you are confined to the command line.
_________________ Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 14 inch: 4 GB RAM, Intel i5-480 processor, Intel HD graphics and sound, Intel 1000 "n" WiFi, Acer CrystalEye webcam, Hot Keys, suspend, hibernate, KDE openGL effects: all work out of the box with 64-bit MEPIS 11! |
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| Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:40 pm |
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Post # 298415
Re: Activate wireless from within shell
I must not have the community repos because I could find no reference to Ceni at all. Thank you though! |
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| Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:13 pm |
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MEPIS Enthusiast Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9178 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2714 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Post # 298441
Re: Activate wireless from within shell They're in Synaptic. Just enable them. See: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... t_MEPIS_11
ceni can run from the Command Line as well as in the GUI. _________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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