Hazel Russman 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.
I really need a suggested wording for the sysV book.
-- Bruce
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