PeasyWiFi - a reliable WiFi connection manager

[rcrsn51]

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Please explain. What does this have to do with PWF?

[mcewanw]

Hi rcrsn51,

I've been trying out the new MintPup and found that my wireless wasn't enabled on boot at that time (RF_KILL toggles radio disabled on boot and didn't automatically re-enable it at that time). I have since discovered that frisbee automatically enables wireless again on installation. I haven't had time to also test PeasyWIFI to see if it also contains code to auto-enable wireless and just thought I'd mention this to you in case of interest. The mechanism I believe frisbee uses is discussed by myself in MintPup thread here (note my understanding may well be wrong since was basically searching around in the dark for the explanation...):

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 377#855377

Cheers, William

[mcewanw]

It appears that PeasyWIFI won't connect out of the box on MintPup (and presumably DebianDog) owing to, what 'might' be the relatively simple problem for yourself to address, that it uses dhcpcd client whereas default in Debian systems is dhclient:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 566#855566

William

[rcrsn51]

It looks like saintless has solved the problem by building a Debian version that contains dhcpcd.

[Scooby]

When you use encryption, after you entered PIN, is the password readable in conf file for the remainder of that session?

[rcrsn51]

When you use encryption, after you entered PIN, is the password readable in conf file for the remainder of that session?

No. the encrypted profile is copied into /tmp and decrypted. The temporary copy is then sent to wpa_supplicant and immediately deleted.

But I'm not going to swear to that. There may be some scenarios where it hangs around.

[Pelo]

PeasyConnect V3.4b on ToOpPy Linux France by Argolance (default tool for wireless) works fine too. Is there a topic about it ? I didn't find it in the forum.
For my own PeasyWifi 2.8 is the version in my tool case. Satisfied,

[rcrsn51]

PeasyConnect V3.4b on ToOpPy Linux France by Argolance (default tool for wireless) works fine too. Is there a topic about it ? I didn't find it in the forum.

PeasyConnect is basically PeasyWiFi with a different user interface made by Argolance for ToOpPy. It also manages other connection methods.

[hulloblue]

Hullo !

I've been trying to find a way to connect to an eduroam network with Puppy. PeasyWiFi seems to be the solution, Unfortunately, however, I am unable to find such a package in Puppy Package Manager.

That which I have tried : updating the repositories with the following selected :
Puppy 5, common, precise, noarch and tahr

Other Peasy packages show up (glue, scan, et cetera).

Now, it is entirely possible that I have simply overlooked something as I am in still in my first month of using this distro.

Many thanks,

bleu

[rcrsn51]

It's attached at the end of the main post on page 1.

Please report back with the results of your eduroam connection.

[uio]

Hi - when I boot Puppy, PeasyWiFi does not connect automatically. I have to reboot the graphical server upon which it does connect quickly. Any ideas as to why this would be ? It might be worth mentionning that the other network managers do not detect any interfaces upon booting either... so maybe the problem does not lie with Peasy. If that is the case, would you be able to direct me to someone else ?

Thanks,

uio

[rcrsn51]

1. What Puppy version are you using?

2. On what kind of computer is it installed?

3. What kind of WiFi adapter do you have?

4. Are you using the Auto-connect feature which puts a script in /root/Startup?

5. If it fails, what happens if you run PWF from the system tray and select your profile?

[cthisbear]

uio.

Not once in your posts have you provided any specs,
even when asked.

Here is my tip for such occasions.

Third last post....

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 1&start=15

Chris.

[Scooby]

Encryption is still done using bcrypt, right?

[rcrsn51]

Yes. If that's a deal-breaker, you should be setting your passphrase to "always-ask".

[Geoffrey]

Here is my tip for such occasions.

Third last post....

Chris, you can link directly to any post, saves a lot of scrolling.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 765#810765

[cthisbear]

Geoffrey:

Hey! uncle Geoffrey.
Not happy now.

Been wondering how that happens, I bookmarked it and
will probably try that later.

Actually just re read that and it works. Einstein lives...

Thanks mate....Chris.

[uio]

Hi rcrsn51,

Well, the issue seems to have resolved itself. I'm not sure quite what it was but I think that it was a combination of the fact that the WiFi was weak (at the library for exampe, I had to move the laptop around a bit and then it connected), and perhaps the fact that I was using the same usb on a laptop (Thinkpad T40) and on a desktop computer.

So, all that said, I've been able to use WiFi correctly with the occasional graphical restart. But not enought to warrant, in my opinion, further investigation I think it is WiFi signal strength (or weakness....) induced.

Autostart works nicely (just used it).

Voilà.

uio

[Scooby]

Mucked around a bit with router and saw that I have
AES set for encryption with wpa2.

Now my peasywifi profile has

Code: Select all

proto=WPA2
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
}

It has TKIP for value, it still does connect despite the TKIP values

Can I edit TKIP here to AES? and if so should that not be a
an option in GUI in peasywifi?

could you please explain how a profile with AES should look?

[rcrsn51]

could you please explain how a profile with AES should look?

I don't know much about encryption, but I thought that CCMP meant AES.