9front doesn't want to connect to the broadband connection downstairs even with the exact correct password, whoops

It looks like wpa is hanging whenever it tries to actually join the network, why?

@nyanide
TKIP vs CCMP? 🤔

@m0xee not sure what you mean

@nyanide
You can configure your access point to use either CCMP or TKIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11i-2004#Protocol_operation
Nowadays on the client you don't have to set up either of them specifically, you only need SSID and the key, wpa_supplicant figures out the rest itself — but it might not always be the case and sometimes you have to try using each of them manually.

@m0xee uhhh this is plan 9, the wpa supplicant talk doesn't exactly apply here. Instead I am using wpa(8)

@m0xee I think the firmware I copied over from the 9front repo with an example version of /lib/firmware is busted anyway, I keep getting messages about missing firmware even though it's right there when I go to look at it

see see @sysrq do you have experience with setting up wifi on 9front using an old thinkpad

@m0xee @sysrq wait a second

@m0xee @sysrq oh, so I might've been using some fallback driver. FORK!! let me rebuild the kernel in 10 seconds

@m0xee @sysrq big sad, rebuilding the kernel did nothing. It just made the error message that said it couldn't find the driver disappear, still not able to connect to broadband router tho