[ydl-gen] YDL 6.1 and WPA2 ; mounting a USB pen drive; and using the DualShock3 as an input under Linux

[John Goche]

Hello,

I have a PS3 which connects without
problems to the wireless network from
the GameOS XMB but when I boot it
into YellowDog 6.1 which came
preinstalled on my system it
cannot connect to the same
wireless access point which
is in my home. Here is what
I do to connect:

I click on the YDL Button in
the upper left-hand corner
and then select
Applications -> Internet
-> Wicd Network Manager
(Network Manager)

which starts the Wicd 1.5.3
program from wicd.sf.net and
it offers me the a list of access
points among which mine is of
the following form:

> foonet 62% WPA2 AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF

Under Advanced Settings for the foonet
access point I check the "Use Encryption"
box and select the default "WPA 1/2 Passphrase"
from the drop-down menu and then in the "Key"
textbox I enter the same passphrase which I
used to connect the GameOS to my home's
wireless access point (say foopassword).
When I try to connect from wicd to the
wireless router/access point I see wicd
go through the following stages:

None: Putting interface down...
foonet: Validating authentication...
foonet: Obtaining IP address...

and at this stage wicd waits for ever
in the Obtaining IP address phase.
I don't know what's wrong. When
I type ifconfig at a shell prompt
I see the interface wlan0.

I can also see two other access points
belonging to two of my neighbors with
one using plain WPA and the other WEP.

Any idea what is wrong here? Is it that
the version of wicd that came with YDL 6.1
only supports WPA and not WPA2 or
something? Any ideas? Should I
disable WPA completely on the
router just to get connected,
then update wicd or something,
and switch WPA2 back on,
or should I update the whole
system to YDL 6.2 (which I
recall claims to have better
Wi-Fi support)?

Any help with this issue is appreciated?

Also, I've inserted a USB key in one of
the two ports but have not found any
mount points under /mnt after this.
I thought a program called automount
would take care of this. Any ideas
on how I can mount the USB key?
I wanted to copy the output of
ifconfig on my box and post it
here but I really don't know
how to mount a USB pen
drive.

Many thanks.

Finally, is there any chance
of using the PS3 DualShock3
game controller as an input
device under Linux or does
this require that a major
device driver be written?
I would really like to use
it under Linux as well.

Thanks for all your help!

John Goche
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.fixstars.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/attachments/20090723/e074b07c/attachment.html