Re: Internet issues after upgrade
Reply #11 –
Well technically speaking, wireless networks are handled by wpa_supplicant but dhcpcd has a hook for this so it can automatically connect on boot and all that good stuff. For configuring a wireless network, you're going to want to make a "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" file. There's a crapload of options that you can look up and enable if you want to, but a very minimal configuration can get you up and running. All you really need is the name of the network and the password in a config file like so:
network={
ssid="MYSSID"
psk="passphrase"
}
Now obviously, you might not want to store the password in plain text. For a more secure approach, you can run " wpa_passphrase MYSSID passphrase" which will output a minimal config in your terminal. It'll generate a more secure PSK that you can use instead of your password in plain text. Check the manpage for some handy examples of minimal configurations.
Oh and to enable the wpa_hook for dhcpcd, you just need to make this symlink.
# ln -s /usr/share/dhcpcd/hooks/10-wpa_supplicant /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/
That way whenever you start dhcpcd, it'll automatically search your wireless configurations/networks for you.
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