wifi

[crito]

I installed etch netinst on my dell laptop today with xdm and fluxbox. Not sure how to go about getting the wireless card up and running and WPA configured. Googled around, but not much info outside a traditional desktop environment.

I put the ip2200 firmware in /hotplug/firmware and installed the wpasupplicant. Where to go from here?

I would like to learn how to do this from the command line; if not a gnome utility would do.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.

thanks,
m

[jledhead]

is that the right place, or is it /lib/firmware?

wait a minute, I think its /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

[crito]

well, yeah, /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

just too lazy to type it all out

sorry...

[jledhead]

and after a reboot still no wifi?

[crito]

I got wifi running but it's still not right.

After reboot I still have no network-manager gui. However, if I type in the command "startfluxbox" (from inside an already established fluxbox session) I get, after the predictable warnings that 'another window manager is running', a new instance of fluxbox with the network manager in the toolbar. So now I can log into my WPA enabled network.

Maybe I'm slow, but this really makes no sense to me. Why would fluxbox initialize itself on boot, apparently with the "fluxbox" parameter, and then make me run "startfluxbox" to access my wifi?

I have Googled around, but nothing I have found has helped me to change the default initialization to startfluxbox in debian.

This also causes problems running some programs. I get error message

Xlib: connection to: ":0.0" refused by server

I'm guessing because I'm trying to run these programs on a second instance of fluxbox and the xserver won't allow it.

So if anyone can help me... maybe my assumptions are all wrong, but it seems that i need to initialize into the "startfluxbox" parameter at bootup. Does anyone know where this config file would be.

Or, if I could just get debian to boot into command line mode and I could manually enter "startfluxbox" I would be more than happy. I haven't figured out how debian runlevels permit this.

thx
m