> > I spent ages last night getting wireless working on an embedded ARM > device. The problem is that the first time wpa_supplicant runs, it can't > see any SSIDs, and doesn't get anywhere. The second time it runs, it's > all fine. >
Does this problem occur under Linux on a regular PC too? > My eventual solution was to create a script that runs wpa_supplicant, > waits five seconds, kills it, then runs it again. So, so dirty. > Yeah that never leaves you feeling good about a project. > This issue only appears to occur with one of my three USB wifi adapters. > However of the others, one isn't supported by any version of Linux, and > the other one is dodgy on 3.2 kernels.. but post 3.2.x kernels don't > work reliably on this hardware. > > Soo.. while I wait for a fourth bloody USB adapter with yet another wifi > chipset in it to arrive.. does anyone have any ideas how to fix the > current one? > > I'm guessing there's something specific the wifi adapter needs > initialised before it will work, but I just don't know what.. > Is there a way to 'open' the adapter via some other means before loading wpa_supplicant? Otherwise maybe strace and see what the differences between the two runs are. James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
