wpa_supplicant-upplicant network down

[Wilfried Klaebe]

Am Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 10:19:35AM +0000 schrieb schwientek at web.de:
> wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ddd reports the following 
> error:
> 
> 
> [...]
> Own MAC address: 00:06:25:2b:55:32
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_wpa: enabled=1
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_key: alg=none key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_countermeasures: enabled=0
> wpa_driver_hostap_set_drop_unencrypted: enabled=1
> Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
> l2_packet_receive - recv: Network is down
> Starting AP scan (broadcast SSID)
> Scan timeout - try to get results
> Received 0 bytes of scan results (0 BSSes)
> Scan results: 0
> Selecting BSS from priority group 0
> No suitable AP found.

Seems you didn't "up" the interface...

Do a "ifconfig wlan0 up" before starting wpa_supplicant.

Regards, Wilfried
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