Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Monday, October 13, 2008 a las 09:22:28AM -0400, Stefan Monnier > escribió: > >> I'm having trouble getting wifi to work: >> I have created a wpa_supplicant.conf file (copied from some other >> machine), and have added "wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" >> to /etc/network/interfaces. >> >> Then `ifup eth0' sometimes works, but usually only right after boot. >> The problem seems to be different from the "wifi only works once" >> problem described in the wiki, because the symptom is only that >> wpa_supplicant fails to associate (it keeps trying to associate, but to >> no avail). >> >> The one odd thing I notice, is that I always get 2 wpa processes >> running: one "wpa_supplicant -u" and one with the usual list of >> arguments specifying the interface, conf file, etc... >> >> What's this "wpa_supplicant -u" doing here and who starts it? > > -u = enable DBus control interface > > see 'wpa_supplicant -h';
To answer the other part of the question, I think this is started by connman which is used by the settings GUI to control the network interfaces. Connman aims to be a lightweight version of NetworkManager but is currently rather incomplete. >> Also, it seems that the om2008.9's Wifi GUI (in the Settings section) >> doesn't use ifup/ifdown (e.g. it starts up a "wpa_supplicant -u" only). >> That's too bad. Is there some way to get them to cooperate better? > > Try my 'procedure' in http://www.unixarea.de/openmoko.txt > and see if this helps you too; my Wifi comes up in 99 of 100 cases; An interesting combination of methods to kill the competing instances of things from connman, sort the routing issue if usb0 is up, and convince the wifi driver/firmware to behave itself. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community