On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 11:27:08 +0200 Simon Kitching <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I've been struggling with getting wireless working recently - finally > working. > > One of the significant problems is that the BLFS book recommends > compiling wpa_supplicant with *two* back-ends enabled: "wext" and > "wired". Unfortunately, that means the "-D" option on the commandline is > mandatory; if omitted then wpa_supplicant just silently does nothing > (without any warning or error messages). > > And some other files, eg systemd's "wpa_supplicant.service" or dhcpcd's > wpa_supplicant hook-script, do not specify a -D option (presumably they > assume that only the wext back-end is compiled in). > > I'm surprised nobody else has had problems with this. Maybe a warning in > the BLFS book would be a good idea? > > Regards, > Simon > -- I have just checked on my laptop (lfs-systemd 7.6). ps -ax|grep wpa shows that wpa is running without the -D option. Nevertheless I am online and can ping sites. The supplicant daemon was launched by [email protected]. There is no driver option mentioned in the wpa_supplicant.service file either, but wpa_supplicant-wired.service does specify -Dwired. It looks like the book has this covered. I do think though that it would be a good idea to put a line in the book saying that you *either* use the wpa_supplicant.service with dbus (if you're thinking of installing Network Manager later) *or* the [email protected]. I had a lot of initial trouble getting on line because I enabled both of them and they interfered with each other. -- H Russman -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
