Problem adding initial station to wpa_supplicant.

[Ben Greear]

In one of my tests, I admin down all stations, but I always start one
wpa_supplicant per radio.  So, I have these running:

root      3579  0.0  0.0  53920  1844 ?        S<s  15:24   0:00 ./local/bin/wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant_if_wiphy0 -B -P
/home/lanforge/wifi/wpa_supplicant-wiphy0.pid -t -f /home/lanforge//wifi/wpa_supplicant_log_wiphy0.txt
root      3584  0.0  0.0  53920  1924 ?        S<s  15:24   0:00 ./local/bin/wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant_if_wiphy1 -B -P
/home/lanforge/wifi/wpa_supplicant-wiphy1.pid -t -f /home/lanforge//wifi/wpa_supplicant_log_wiphy1.txt -dd

My normal operation, is to then do an interface add when stations are created and
admin-up.

./local/bin/wpa_cli -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant_if_wiphy0 interface_add sta900 /home/lanforge/wifi/wpa_supplicant-wiphy0-sta900.conf nl80211

The problem I have is that when I do an 'interface_add', the supplicant doesn't actually
do anything obvious like trying to associate, and in particular, it does not create a /var/run/wpa_supplicant
directory with the interface name in it.  So, I cannot use the 'reconfigure' or other
wpa-cli commands that I would normally use to kick off the scan and association for a station.

Am I missing something simple, or do I just need to go write some code in wpa_supplicant?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com