[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#407936: wpasupplicant: does not configure interface correctly when it is available at boot time

[Kel Modderman]

tags 407936 - patch
thanks

On Monday 22 January 2007 23:52, Ivan Zaera Avellon wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.5.5-4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
>
> When wpasupplicant is launched from /etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh it
> tries to use flag -W, which is supposed to make it wait until the wpa_cli
> attaches to the socket. The thing is, that the -W is not documented in
> wpasupplicant, and thus, it does not work (at least in my system). This
> causes wpa_cli to miss the CONNECTED event when the wireless network is
> available from the very first moment. As the event is missed, wpa_action is
> not called and the interface is not configured.
>
> I suggest changing the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh, in function
> init_wpa_cli, so that after wpa_cli is launched, we force a disconnect with
> wpa_cli to make wpasupplicant reconnect again and send the CONNECTED event.
> The proposed code would be:
>
> init_wpa_cli () {
>         if [ -n "$WPA_ACTION_SCRIPT" ]; then
>                 local WPA_CLI_OPTIONS
>                 WPA_CLI_OPTIONS="-B -P $WPA_CLI_PIDFILE -i $WPA_IFACE"
>
>                 wpa_msg verbose "$WPA_CLI_BIN $WPA_CLI_OPTIONS -p
> $WPA_CTRL_DIR -a $WPA_ACTION_SCRIPT"
>
>                 start-stop-daemon --start --oknodo $DAEMON_VERBOSITY \
>                         --name $WPA_CLI_PNAME --startas $WPA_CLI_BIN
> --pidfile $WPA_CLI_PIDFILE \ -- $WPA_CLI_OPTIONS -p $WPA_CTRL_DIR -a
> $WPA_ACTION_SCRIPT
>
>                 if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
>                         wpa_msg stderr "$WPA_CLI_BIN daemon failed to
> start" return 1
>                 else
>                         wpa_msg verbose "force disconnect to assure that
> wpa_cli receives CONNECTED event" $WPA_CLI_BIN -P $WPA_CLI_PIDFILE -i
> $WPA_IFACE disconnect fi
>         fi
> }
>

I nack this patch and propose that -W should be documented and fixed (it seems 
to work for me just fine, but is clearly undocumented).

Can you please disclose your configuration?

Thanks, Kel.