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OlddogNewtricks · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 124 Location: U.K.

Hi tempestuous, do you remember this not so long ago

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

The fact that WPA2 encryption works in Puppy 214 is nothing new.
I helped Dougal add the WPA2 configuration options to the Network Wizard at that stage, in collaboration with several other testers.

There have only been a few WPA2 failures with Puppy 2.12-2.14 reported on the forum, and all these reports failed to indicate the exact process followed, and configuration details. So there was a better-than-average chance that the user was at fault, not Puppy.

It may also have been due to an outdated version of the Network Wizard being used.

Or it may have been due to an incompatibility between the wifi router in use, and the particular wifi adaptor/driver.

Or the particular wifi device in question may have required a special configuration change to the "ap_scan" value in wpa_supplicant.conf.

OlddogNewtricks · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 124 Location: U.K.

tempestuous, success, apart from the updated net-wizard it needed wpa_supplicant-0.5.7.1 where I've been using wpa_supplicant-0.6.0. In the end a simple fix made 10 times difficult by me. Thanks for your help.

five · Joined: 15 Jul 2009 Posts: 5

Got this working, thanks for the guidance.

Using a Linksys WPC600 on both WPA2 (AES) and unencrypted networks.

firepants-jr · Joined: 05 Aug 2009 Posts: 13 Location: Tulsa, OK, USA

nic2109 · Posted: Sat 24 Oct 2009, 17:00 Post_subject: Sub_title: Switching Interfaces

Can someone help with a puzzle please?

What is the command to kill a network interface? I sometimes find that I have either a wired or a wireless interface active but wish to switch to the other. What's the easiest way to do that?

Thanks.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1975 Location: Maine, USA

nic2109 · Posted: Wed 28 Oct 2009, 18:36 Post_subject:

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

October 2009
I just edited an earlier post in this thread
with a HOWTO for ad-hoc wifi connections -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=159929#159929

nic2109 · Posted: Thu 29 Oct 2009, 08:31 Post_subject: Sub_title: Thanks for all you do

@tempestuous: thanks for all you do.

In addition to the incomparable ground-work done by Barry it's thanks to the quiet and patient work put in by you and other gurus that has made Puppy what it is now. Very Happy

Thank you.

hladik · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 49

I've been having haphazard results with Macpup and Fatpup...the main problem seems to be that the IP address I specify in the network wizard keeps getting changed or hijacked by some other box or router in the neighborhood. My router interface tells me what it ought to be, 192.x.x.x,
but my pup box IP keeps reading 169.x.x.x. Additionally, sometimes at bootup the USB dongle is not found and also not found upon removing and replugging. How can I get control of this hardware. It's works fine under Win2K. I'm using a Compaq Armada 7400 laptop, 366mghz, 192mb ram. Thanks for any ideas.

mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 5674

QBall2U · Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Somewhere, USA

Posted: Tue 09 Oct 2007, 05:55 Post subject: How to configure wifi from the commandline

To Tempestuous:

Could these commands be made into a script to be run at boot?

As in:

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

QBall2U · Joined: 02 Apr 2009 Posts: 65 Location: Somewhere, USA