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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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Stare tematy: [DNG] configure a wifi connection from commandline
Temat: Re: [DNG] configure a wifi connection from commandline
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 11:09:39AM +0200, uhtlmk@??? wrote:
> I installed a basic devuan ascii to qemu and hopefully i went to /etc
> to configure from the commandline a working wireless connection. But,
> nada - there is no wpa_supplicant (which i expected to be there).


I have wpasupplicant on my devuan laptop, aptitude tells me there is
no wpa-supplicant, but there is wpasupplicant.

Perhaps you just need to install it without the hyphen.

hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ aptitude show wpa-supplicant
E: Unable to locate package wpa-supplicant
hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ aptitude show wpasupplicant
Package: wpasupplicant                   
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 2.3-1+deb8u3
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Debian wpasupplicant Maintainers <pkg-wpa-devel@???>
Architecture: i386
Uncompressed Size: 2,705 k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.4), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7),
         libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpcsclite1 (>= 1.0.0), libreadline6
         (>= 6.0), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1), lsb-base, adduser
Suggests: wpagui, libengine-pkcs11-openssl
Breaks: initscripts (< 2.88dsf-13.3)
Description: client support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i)


Homepage: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/

Tags: admin::configuring, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
      interface::daemon, interface::shell, network::client,
      network::configuration, protocol::ssl, role::program,
      security::cryptography, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::configuring


hendrik@notlookedfor:~$

-- hendrik