Can not control wireless driver after leaving wpa_supplicant

[Gentoopower]

YenJung Chang wrote:

>Thanks for your reply.
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>Yes, I had checked it, the wpa_supplicant was really killed.
>I could use iwconfig to set the wireless device, but the wireless
>device did not react what I set. For example, I set the ESSID of
>another AP, then the ESSID showed in iwconfig is as I set, but the
>wireless device did not connect to the AP as I set.
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I'm no expert at that, since I setup my card once and it has been 
running since then :-)
But, I think, if you want to join another ap, you first have to bring 
down the current interface, then set configure the card and use ifconfig 
to bring it up again.
What exactly did you do, just kill wpa_supplicant and run iwconfig?

>Regards,
>YJ
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>On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:33 +0100, Gentoopower <gentoopower at yahoo.de> wrote:
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>>Did you check if wpa_supplicant is really killed, check with 'ps ax' if
>>it is not running anymore.
>>You should be able to use iwconfig etc if wpa_supplicant is off.
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>>YenJung Chang wrote:
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>>>Hi, List,
>>>
>>>I am using wpa_supplicant 0.3.4 on linux kernel 2.4.25 and the
>>>wireless driver from Madwifi.
>>>I can control the wireless device using wpa_supplicant ok. But after I
>>>killed wpa_supplicant process, I can no longer configure the wireless
>>>device well via wireless tools (iwconfig, etc.), like connecting to
>>>another AP.
>>>
>>>Does the wireless device only work under wpa_supplicant control if
>>>wpa_supplicant controlled it?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>YJ.
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