[Discuss] wireless problem

dan moylan jdm at moylan.us
Tue Jan 1 15:14:55 EST 2013


dan ritter writes:
> 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.

yup, a bit of fumbling, but that did the trick.  wonder what
happend to make it go out.  whatever.

thanks for your insight, i never would have guessed.

ole dan

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