Why wpa_supplicant doesn't start with ndis0 interface?

hiren panchasara hiren.panchasara at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 18:49:52 UTC 2012


On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> On 09/14/2012 10:54, Glen Barber wrote:
>
>> Ok.  Thanks for letting us know.
>>
>
> Now wpa_supplicant starts and is operational, however '/etc/rc.d/netif
> start' always issues this warning:
> Starting wpa_supplicant
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant
> Starting Network: lo0 ndis0 re0.
>
> Also (as a result) dhclient isn't started, but succeeds when started
> manually.
> wpa_supplicant started by hand doesn't print any errors.
>
> I can't find any option in wpa_supplicant.conf making it to write a log
> what is wrong. On linux it seems to be -f option for the log file.
> Any way to make netif more verbose?

Not sure if you looked at - man wpa_supplicant, which has
-d for debugging
-s for pumping messages to syslog

Thanks,
Hiren


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