What Is Preferred Runlevel 3 WiFi Connect Utility?
by enorbet from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BRNC)
Greetz
I have a test partition for Current, actually more than one, but one is testing for slackpkg as well. Maybe I'm mistaken but I suppose such an update/upgrade process is best served outside of X. So I'd like to connect via CLI which I haven't done since Slackware required manual config of modems and running good ol' BitchX way back in the day.
Ideally I'd like to use "nmcli" so I could keep /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager active (works fine in X) but after messing about with nmcli, wpa_supplicant, wpa_passphrase, ifconfig, iwlist, and iwconfig and reading lots of manpages yet still getting errors, I decided to try the older, simpler wpa_cli outlined in a Slackware doc.
The problem is that even when I edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf exactly as shown in the "update_config=1" preparation stage and run the following, I get
Code:wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
(results)
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid Argumentand I can't seem to find out why.
I'm also running into weirdness with driver selection for wpa_supplicant since wext seems to be really old, not preferred in the man pages (n180211 is said to be better) , but apparently wext is preferred by many users. I'd like to know why none of these utilities seem able to just use the kernel module, but it's likely best to discuss that later.
So, everything works splendidly in X, what is the preferred and simplest way to connect in Runlevel 3? There is too much data online with both contradictions and age working against them so even if someone just points me to a doc that is the current method/syntax I think I'm good.
If it matters, my wifi is an Intel onboard wifi 6 2x2 AX201 with an external antenna.
I have a test partition for Current, actually more than one, but one is testing for slackpkg as well. Maybe I'm mistaken but I suppose such an update/upgrade process is best served outside of X. So I'd like to connect via CLI which I haven't done since Slackware required manual config of modems and running good ol' BitchX way back in the day.
Ideally I'd like to use "nmcli" so I could keep /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager active (works fine in X) but after messing about with nmcli, wpa_supplicant, wpa_passphrase, ifconfig, iwlist, and iwconfig and reading lots of manpages yet still getting errors, I decided to try the older, simpler wpa_cli outlined in a Slackware doc.
The problem is that even when I edit the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf exactly as shown in the "update_config=1" preparation stage and run the following, I get
Code:wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
(results)
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid Argumentand I can't seem to find out why.
I'm also running into weirdness with driver selection for wpa_supplicant since wext seems to be really old, not preferred in the man pages (n180211 is said to be better) , but apparently wext is preferred by many users. I'd like to know why none of these utilities seem able to just use the kernel module, but it's likely best to discuss that later.
So, everything works splendidly in X, what is the preferred and simplest way to connect in Runlevel 3? There is too much data online with both contradictions and age working against them so even if someone just points me to a doc that is the current method/syntax I think I'm good.
If it matters, my wifi is an Intel onboard wifi 6 2x2 AX201 with an external antenna.