[Discuss] wireless problem

[Dan Ritter]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2013 at 01:29:03PM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> > reason 2 is no authorization. Are you using wpa or another
> > passwording scheme?
> 
> don't really know.  however, i noticee that wpa_supplicant
> is running, though there is no wlan0 socket at
> /var/run/wpa_supplicant as there is on my other machine
> running xubuntu 12.04.  have no idea how to proceed.

Unload the kernel module for your wifi chipset. Reload it.

(lsmod, rmmod, modprobe are your friends here)

Then try setting it up like a new connection.

-dsr-