wpa_supplicant associates but dhcpcd cannot get IP address

Ian McDonald imcdnzl
Sun Feb 6 12:25:16 PST 2005


>From a previous thread it was suggested to use dhclient to get an IP
address after wpa_supplicant started successfully.

I have a similar problem but I haven't yet tested - I just resorted to
putting in a static IP address which is a nasty hack...


On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:43:21 -0500, Craig L <gangis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jouni,
> 
> Apparently changing ap_scan to 1 and not letting it daemonize worked.
> I shut it off, added the -Bw switch to let it daemonize and I'm still
> experiencing the same issue. I then removed -Bw and tried again. It
> apparently worked. From what I'm seeing, it only works if
> wpa_supplicant doesn't run as a daemon. Any ideas? Thank you very
> much!
> 
> 
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:29:22 -0800, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:12:03PM +0000, Craig L wrote:
> >
> > > Initializing interface 'ath0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default'
> > > Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> > > Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'
> > > eapol_version=1
> > > ap_scan=2
> >
> > Please re-test with ap_scan=1 (the default value). I don't think madwifi
> > driver or driver interface in wpa_supplicant work with ap_scan=2. If
> > this does not work, please run wpa_supplicant manually with debugging
> > enabled (-dd) and without daemonizing it so that you can get full debug
> > log.
> >
> > --
> > Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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