Majorix
February 26th, 2008, 04:32 AM
I have WPA on a wireless connection, and after a little tinkering, I came to the conclusion that I needed Network Profiles. So I went ahead and created one for the wireless conn and one for the wired.
Everything seemed to work fine (at least on wireless, I haven't tested the wired connection) and I downloaded the updates, and a few extra packages and installed them.
After having installed a GUI and stuff, I rebooted into X. However, when I tried to go onto google on the browser, I couldn't. I tried other pages too, to no avail.
I can connect to the net fine on my desktop however, and I am posting from there.
It came to my attention that, while booting, it didn't even say "Starting the network profile" anymore. I thought it may be something wrong with the rc.conf, so I have tried setting the NET_PROFILES option there to
(wifi !wired)
(wifi)
(menu)
but it didn't work.
I have gone ahead and set the hostname to something else in the main profile (wifi) to see if it would show up (that would mean the line is processed and the profile is working fine, right?), but it went for the default hostname (ie the one in rc.conf) again.
What could be wrong? I am so totally puzzled :(
The line ISN'T commented out.
I tried moving the line to the top but it didn't work.
And finally as a result the wireless device isn't recognized (only lo is).
I want to hear your opinions.
Everything seemed to work fine (at least on wireless, I haven't tested the wired connection) and I downloaded the updates, and a few extra packages and installed them.
After having installed a GUI and stuff, I rebooted into X. However, when I tried to go onto google on the browser, I couldn't. I tried other pages too, to no avail.
I can connect to the net fine on my desktop however, and I am posting from there.
It came to my attention that, while booting, it didn't even say "Starting the network profile" anymore. I thought it may be something wrong with the rc.conf, so I have tried setting the NET_PROFILES option there to
(wifi !wired)
(wifi)
(menu)
but it didn't work.
I have gone ahead and set the hostname to something else in the main profile (wifi) to see if it would show up (that would mean the line is processed and the profile is working fine, right?), but it went for the default hostname (ie the one in rc.conf) again.
What could be wrong? I am so totally puzzled :(
The line ISN'T commented out.
I tried moving the line to the top but it didn't work.
And finally as a result the wireless device isn't recognized (only lo is).
I want to hear your opinions.