I've set myself the challenge of turning off Network Manager, and configuring my wireless adapter manually.
(I'm a noob, and I thought it would be a good learning excercise !)
Good news is that I have some success.
Down side, is that in the process, I am getting some error messages and I'd rather work them through rather than ignore.
Code:
sudo service network-manager stop
sudo ip link set wlan0 up
sudo wpa_supplicant -B -D nl80211,wext -i wlan0 -c supplicant.conf
sudo dhclient wlan0 -v
The above gets me an internet connection and I am able to surf away happily.
However, the dhclient line does produce err messages.
Code:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1
Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/wlan0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending on LPF/wlan0/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.254
Job for smbd.service failed.
See 'systemctl status smbd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "reload" failed.
bound to 192.168.1.75 -- renewal in 37624 seconds.
Doing as I am told, I looked at systemctl & journalctl
Code:
systemctl status smbd.service
● smbd.service - LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/smbd)
Active: inactive (dead)
journalctl -xn
No journal files were found.
I've googled Samba.... but really struggling to find/understand what the problem is.
Please could someone point me in the right direction ??
Code:
sudo ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet addr:192.168.1.75 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::222:fbff:fea3:31ce/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10042 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7094 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7692757 (7.3 MiB) TX bytes:1465772 (1.3 MiB)
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