On Wednesday, 5 August 2020 21:25:09 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> I want to do this manually, before automating it; "ifconfig -a" shows
> eth0, and lo, and...
>
> wlan0: flags=4098 mtu 1500
> ether 00:26:c6:4a:b4:92 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
> RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
> TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>
> Next steps are to start wpa_supplicant and wpa_cli
>
> ===
>
> [thimk][root][~] /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant start
> * Starting WPA Supplicant Daemon ...
> Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant [
> ok ]
>
> [thimk][root][~] wpa_cli
> wpa_cli v2.9
> Copyright (c) 2004-2019, Jouni Malinen and contributors
>
> This software may be distributed under the terms of the BSD license.
> See README for more details.
>
>
>
> Interactive mode
>
> Could not connect to wpa_supplicant: (nil) - re-trying
>
> ===
>
> Even specifying "wpa_cli -i wlan0" fails. The config files...
>
>
> # /etc/conf.d/net
> =
> config_eth0="dhcp"
>
> modules="wpa_supplicant"
> config_wlan0="dhcp"
>
> # /etc/wpa_supplicant
> =
> # The below line not be changed otherwise wpa_supplicant refuses to work
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
>
> # Ensure that only root can read the WPA configuration
> ctrl_interface_group=0
>
> # Let wpa_supplicant take care of scanning and AP selection
> ap_scan=1
These settings are the same here, with two exceptions. The config file is:
# ls -la /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-rw--- 1 root root 77640 Jun 18 2019 /etc/wpa_supplicant/
wpa_supplicant.conf
and,
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
The former is relevant because the default openrc script requires '/etc/
wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf', unless you have modified it.
The latter most likely not relevant - but it allows me to change settings in
the wpa_supplicant GUI.
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