wpa_supplicant -u ?

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, October 13, 2008 a las 09:22:28AM -0400, Stefan Monnier escribió:

> I'm having trouble getting wifi to work:
> I have created a wpa_supplicant.conf file (copied from some other
> machine), and have added "wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"
> to /etc/network/interfaces.
> 
> Then `ifup eth0' sometimes works, but usually only right after boot.
> The problem seems to be different from the "wifi only works once"
> problem described in the wiki, because the symptom is only that
> wpa_supplicant fails to associate (it keeps trying to associate, but to
> no avail).
> 
> The one odd thing I notice, is that I always get 2 wpa processes
> running: one "wpa_supplicant -u" and one with the usual list of
> arguments specifying the interface, conf file, etc...
> 
> What's this "wpa_supplicant -u" doing here and who starts it?

  -u = enable DBus control interface

see 'wpa_supplicant -h';

> 
> Also, it seems that the om2008.9's Wifi GUI (in the Settings section)
> doesn't use ifup/ifdown (e.g. it starts up a "wpa_supplicant -u" only).
> That's too bad.  Is there some way to get them to cooperate better?

Try my 'procedure' in http://www.unixarea.de/openmoko.txt
and see if this helps you too; my Wifi comes up in 99 of 100 cases;

	matthias

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