[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: wpa_supplicant does not associate till it is restarted ?

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Thomas,

On Friday 04 August 2006 14:59, B Thomas wrote:
> 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.

Its a minefield too.

>
> I will read the readme file you pointed me to and try again.
> Should you have any suggestions I would be greatfull

Try going through the docs. I'd suggest that you can use wpa_supplicant 
manually too, if possible, to verify you can actually achieve what you want 
to.

The ipw3945 driver requires additional complexities (ipw3945d, modprobe hacks) 
that could well be installed sub-optimally and interfering in some way, I 
don't know.

Sarge also requires extra steps. It s really not the best distribution for 
using cutting edge wifi drivers dude, unless you know exactly what you are 
doing.

I'd suggest starting from step 1 again, after removing all the stuff you've 
furiously attempted to hack up.

Good luck.

>
> PS: Do I need to forward my original message to
> the debian mailing list to ?

No.

Thanks, Kel.