ifplugd and wpa_supplicant

Andrew Barr barr.156
Tue Dec 21 15:21:50 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 21:44, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:13:09PM -0500, Andrew Barr wrote:
> 
> > incidence of the problem, but in my configuration that causes ifplugd to
> > bring the interface down and causes wpa_supplicant to quit, even with -w
> > specified on the command line.
> 
> That should not happen.. I can set the interface down and then up with
> number of different drivers without causing wpa_supplicant to quit. I
> have not tested with driver_ipw2100, but it sounds kind of odd for it to
> behave differently.
> 
> Could you please run wpa_supplicant on foreground with full debugging
> enabled and see what happens when you set the interface down?

I discovered the problem...I had the interface init script killing
wpa_supplicant :>. I removed that once but forgot to do it again after
I'd restored from a backup. Sorry to be a bother :(.

Andrew





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