wpa_supplicant does not associate till it is restarted ?
B Thomas
thomas.1037
Thu Aug 3 21:59:39 PDT 2006
Hi,
I started wpasupplicant from both system services and
if-up/down scripts out of desperation as I was not
able to get wpasupplicant to associate without restart.
Turning any one of them off does not make a difference.
I built the deb packages for all the softwares because,
as you have noted, they were not available for sarge.
Frankly at this point I am pretty confused and not sure
what is going wrong or how to go about debugging it. My
knowledge of networking and wireless is limited.
I will read the readme file you pointed me to and try again.
Should you have any suggestions I would be greatfull
PS: Do I need to forward my original message to
the debian mailing list to ?
regards
b thomas
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:12:42AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Friday 04 August 2006 04:52, B Thomas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using Debian/Sarge with kernel 2.6.17, ipw3945
> > (1.0.5), ipw3945d (1.7.19), ieee80211 (1.1.13) and
> > wpasupplicant (0.5.4). I need to restart the wparoamd
> > deamon every time I boot up my computer for wpa_supplicant
> > to associate. No other change are required just this
> > restart. Could you kindly help me pin point the problem.
> > Also my office network takes a very long time (5 mins)
> > to associate if at all) without the restart.
>
> Your setup looks very specific to the debian scripts, it may be better off
> discussing this on the pkg-wpa-devel mailing lists than making a lot of noise
> here about it. Details at:
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wpa-devel
>
>
>
> >
> > Here is some information relating to my setup :
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > /etc/networking/interfaces :
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> > metric 1
> >
> > iface eth1 inet dhcp
> > wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > wpa-action /etc/wpa_supplicant/dhclient
>
> Here you use ifupdown hooks to start wpa_supplicant, but below you also
> describe that you start the old (deprecated) system service too. Looks like
> you are very confused. Lets discuss this on the pkg-wpa-devel list. I've been
> writing a lot of documentation to help clear things up.
> http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/README.txt
>
> I cannot however speculate on problems related to ipw3945, its non-trivial to
> install, imho, and I have not had first hand experience of that.
>
> The fact that your platform is sarge is also a bit strange, how did you
> install such a recent version of the wpasupplicant package for instance makes
> me curious.
>
> Thanks, Kel.
>
>
> > metric 2
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > /etc/init.d/wparoamd:
> > is the same file that comes with wpa_suplicant (i.e.
> > examples/wpasupplicant.roaming-daemon ) in the
> > examples directory but with ENABLE_ROAMING_MODE=1,
> > CONFIG="/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf",
> > INTERFACE="eth1", and DRIVER="wext"
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
> > is the same file that comes with wpa_supplicant in the
> > examples (i.e. examples/wpa_supplicant.conf.gz ) directory
> > but with driver_param="associate=1" and the two network blocks :
> > # coffee shop
> > network={
> > ssid=""
> > key_mgmt=NONE
> > priority=0
> > }
> > # office
> > network={
> > ssid="office"
> > scan_ssid=1
> > key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
> > eap=PEAP
> > identity="MYID"
> > password="MYPSSWD"
> > phase1="peaplabel=0"
> > phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
> > priority=2
> > }
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > /etc/defaults/ifplugd:
> > INTERFACES="eth0 eth1"
> > HOTPLUG_INTERFACES=""
> > ARGS="-q -f -u0 -d10 -w -I"
> > SUSPEND_ACTION="stop"
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > /etc/modprobe.d/ipw3945:
> > alias eth1 ipw3945
> > install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945; sleep 0.5 ;
> > /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ;
> > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/ipw3945:
> > ipw3945
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Note blacklisting ipw3945 with hotplug is necessary to ensure
> > that it is loaded only when requested by wpa_supplicant .
> > In anycase removing this does not make a difference but makes
> > things worse in that now I have to reload the module after bootup.
> >
> > I understand I don't need to use ifplugd but again not doing so
> > does not solve my problem. Another person suggested I use
> > a wpa-roam stanza in my /etc/network/interfaces. But I could not
> > find this documented anywhere and am not sure how it is used.
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > If I set eth1 to auto in /etc/network/interfaces I get the following
> > error message :
> > ipw3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
> > ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
> > ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
> > setsockopt: No such device
> > ioctl[SIOC{ADD/DEL}MULTI]: No such device
> > ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
> > wpa_driver_wired_init: Could not get interface flags
> > Failed to initialize driver interface
> > wpa_supplicant: failed to locate ctrl_interface socket, exiting
> > run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return
> > code 1
> > Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5
> > Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.
> > All rights reserved.
> >
> > Please contribute if you find this software useful.
> > For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html
> >
> > eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > Bind socket to interface: No such device
> > exiting.
> > Failed to bring up eth1.
> > done.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > sincerely
> > B Thomas
> > _______________________________________________
More information about the Hostap
mailing list