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This howto is intended for those who are not afraid of the inner workings of their operating system. Establishing a network connection is a simple process involving these steps:
Where interface can be wlan0, wlan1, wlan2, etc. It can also be a wired interface like eth0, eth1, eth2, ... The new naming scheme should make no difference, although I did not them.
In the case of a WiFi, associate the interface with a hotspot as follows:
If you want security start the required daemon. In our case, we will use wpa_supplicant. If one want something else one can attempt to use it, but again, I did not do any such tests apart from using wpa_supplicant.
To use wpa_supplicant we need to create a .conf file which will hold the essid and password for our hotspot. The required contents as as follows:
Assign an IP address or use dhclient. In the case of wpa_supplicant I did not do any tests of assigning an IP directly without dhclient. Using dhclient worked as follows:
Ed, this is an important topic. We have seen so many posters struggle with Network-Manager or Wicd on a desktop that doesn't move, thus uses one connection only. A few lines of script can fix such a connection permanently. Even portable machines do not need Network-Manager or Wicd. The real difficulty for so many is not understanding those simple scripts that actually make the connections and fall back on GUI's thinking they have to.