WiFi works automatically with NetworkManager, but not manually with wpa_supplicant?
Keith G. Robertson-Turner
fedora-gmane.00003 at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk
Thu Oct 12 01:49:43 UTC 2006
Everything's set up properly AFAICT, and WiFi connects fine with
NetworkManager, but if I disconnect and try to reconnect manually with
wpa_supplicant, I get the following error:
]# wpa_supplicant \
-c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf \
-i eth1 \
-D ndiswrapper
"Association request to the driver failed"
The full log is here:
http://www.genesis-x.nildram.co.uk/filez/wpa.log.txt
The wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="Genesis-WiFi"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=*********
}
I'm using the bcmwl5 (Broadcom) ndiswrapper driver, on FC5 x86_64.
Like I said, WiFi *does* work (when activated using NetworkManager), but
manually running wpa_supplicant fails.
Also "service wpa_supplicant start" just produces a heap of errors like:
Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
How do I specify the device and interface in the wpa_supplicant
configuration file, for the benefit of starting it as a service? The man
page says nothing about that.
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K.
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