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rbacher:
I installed microcore (very basic) with jwm as the window manager, and it works great except for one thing -- I cannot connect to wifi that requires a password.  I am able to connect to an open access point with $ sudo iwconfig eth0 essid <name> so that much is working fine. But I need to connect to WPA-PSK wifi.  I tried to download wpa_supplicant following the instructions at http://wiki.tinycorelinux.com/Setting+up+Wifi.  But when I run $ tce-load -wi wpa_supplicant.tcz I get an error message that says "No such file or directory." The file it is looking for is
"wireless-2.6.31_xo1-20100728.1841.1.olpc.a0a0edb7d8cbadb.tcz." Can anyone help? Thanks

curaga:
I'm assuming you're running one of the XO remasters. How the wireless modules are arranged there we have no idea, but if they are not in a wireless-*.tcz extension, you can just remove that line from wpa-supplicant's .dep file.

rbacher:
I'm not sure if I am running an XO remaster or not. I set it up by using the [removed, see 6] plus some tinkering (hit and miss) on my own.  But, how can I remove the line you refer to from the wpa_supplicant .dep file? Where is the .dep file? Thanks

curaga:
The dep files are in your tce/optional directory. See /opt/.tce_dir for where the tce dir is.

The dep file is just text, use your favorite text editor to remove the line.

rbacher:
okay, I found the .dep files.  There was no .dep file for wpa_supplicant, so I wrote one with two lines:

openssl-0.9.8.tcz
wireless_tools.tcz

and saved it as /mnt/mmcblk0p1/tce/optional/wpa_supplicant.tcz.dep.  After that I was able to download and install wpa_supplicant.tcz (and it shows up in AppsAudit in On Boot Maintenance).  But... it's not running. If I run $ sudo find / -name wpa_supplicant, I get 3 files in the tce/optional directory (wpa_supplicant.tcz, wpa_supplicant.tcz.dep, and wpa_supplicant.tcz.md5.txt).  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help

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