On Sep 3, 2015 6:27 AM, "Hazel Russman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
Hello there, I think I have put an adequate line in the book, in the development version. If someone can check and tell me if it is good enough, then that would really help me out. Douglas R. Reno
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