wpa_supplicant associates but dhcpcd cannot get IP address

[Craig L]

I recompiled wpa_supplicant with the extra .config flags that you
instructed me to add, and it worked. :D Even associates and gets an IP
the first time during bootup. So now I have the net.ath0 like this:

modules=( "wpa_supplicant" "!iwconfig" )
wpa_supplicant_ath0="-Dmadwifi -w"

It works great, and goes into background even without the -B switch.
Thank you Jouni, you've been a great help. Have a good day! :)

-Craig


On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:41:04 -0800, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 04:54:19PM -0500, Craig L wrote:
> 
> > Starting ath0 [ok]
> >      Starting wpa_supplicant on ath0 ...
> >      /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf must set
> >      ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant [!!]
> 
> I would assume this is something from Gentoo scripts, since I haven't
> seen it before.
> 
> > And when I uncomment that line:
> >
> > Starting ath0 [ok]
> >      Starting wpa_supplicant on ath0 ...
> > Line 1: Invalid configuration line 'ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
> > Failed to read configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf'. [!!]
> 
> Looks like your wpa_supplicant is built without support for the control
> interface. If you add CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE=y to .config when building
> wpa_supplicant this should work.
> 
> > the site. And here's the funny thing... If I comment out that
> > particular line in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and execute it in the
> > command line, it works perfectly without any complaints, dhcpcd grabs
> > an IP and wpa_supplicant daemonizes. Weird, huh? It's not that
> > pressing of an issue, I don't mind executing my script 'wlan-home' by
> > hand everytime I need to use it (for now.)
> 
> That's odd.. I need to test the Gentoo start up scripts a some point
> with madwifi driver.
> 
> --
> Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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