Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 22:12 +0200, Thorsten wrote: > >> Darren Albers wrote: >> >>> On 6/14/07, *Thorsten* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >>> >>> As I have written a few days ago, I can not get nm working under >>> zenwalk >>> linux 4.6. >>> I think it has to do with that error-message: >>> >>> Jun 14 20:48:56 (none) NetworkManager: >>> <WARN> real_act_stage2_config(): >>> Activation (eth1/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant. >>> Jun 14 20:50:36 (none) NetworkManager: >>> <WARN> real_act_stage2_config(): >>> Activation (eth1/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant. >>> >>> >>> So what exactly does that mean? >>> >>> wpa_supplicant is installed and works if I setup my wireless via hand. >>> >>> >>> thanks in advance >>> >>> Thorsten >>> >>> >>> What version of WPA_Supplicant are you running? >>> >>> >>> >> Hi, >> >> I have wpa_supplicant-0.5.7 running >> > > Where is your wpa_supplicant at? /usr/sbin? /sbin? /usr/bin? Does it > ever create a global control socket when spawned with: > > /path/to/wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global > > And can root read/write from that socket? > > Dan > > sorry for my late reply, I had no Internet-access during the last days ...
My wpa_supplicant is located under /usr/sbin/ If I do a: wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global & I can locate the file with root[simon]# ls -l /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global srwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2007-06-17 23:26 /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global= but with cat ore more I can not open/read the file: root[simon]# more /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global= /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global=: No such file or directory root[simon]# cat /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global cat: /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global: No such device or address root[simon]# Thorsten _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
