Not a problem, happy to help.
Are you on OMAP platform ? Just curious ....

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:28 PM, >> Jith911 <jithuja...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Savoy,
>
> Sorry.. as you said, i browsed through the code.. I understood..
> Thanks a lot Savoy.. I am so sorry..
>
> Thanks,
>
> JJ.
>
>
> On Feb 5, 9:25 pm, pavan savoy <pavan.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > See, 2 interfaces right,
> > the wpa_supplicant daemon has to communicate with the GUI, this happens
> over
> > the remote socket [it is just what I call, there could be a better name I
> > agree..]
> > This has to be mentioned in 2 places, wpa_supp...conf & the wifi.c file
> in
> > hardware/libhardware...
> >
> > However if you go through the source code of wpa_supplicant you'ld
> realise
> > that, before doing a connect on that socket on "data/misc/wifi",
> supplicant
> > creates a local unix domain socket on
> > data/misc/wifi/socket & binds to it.
> >
> > This is what I feel the problem is.. [so create a directory
> > /data/misc/wifi/sockets, please..]
> >
> > Finally,
> > If you have any one of these directories or sockets missing, the error is
> > the same.
> >
> > And if you still get an error, then we would have a 3rd problem, with
> > basically the same error description.
> >
> > regards,
> > Pavan
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:49 PM, >> Jith911 <jithuja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Savoy,
> >
> > > I got a similar error before. but that has to do with file
> > > permissions. This time its different. File has all the required
> > > permissions.
> >
> > > In supplicant i have mentioned the control interface as /data/misc/
> > > wifi/. And wpa_supplicant creates a socket file eth0 there which has
> > > all the required permissions. This i guess is the local socket. Sorry,
> > > I didn't get what you meant by remote socket.. In hardware/libhardware/
> > > wifi.c i have mentioned the interface dir as /data/misc/wifi/ so that
> > > the app should communicate with supplicant. I have done this few
> > > months ago and i had GUI working with this. But now when i do the same
> > > thing, i get this error.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > > JJ.
> >
> > > On Feb 5, 7:46 pm, pavan savoy <pavan.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Humn, Didn't you get the same error earlier ....
> >
> > > > Is the local unix domain sockets being created. Last time I checked
> on
> > > Wifi,
> > > > it checks for a path called /data/misc/wifi/sockets directory to
> create
> > > > local sockets & the below mentioned path to the remote socket.
> >
> > > > look in wpa_ctrl_open function, or _unix.c inside wpa_supplicant
> library.
> >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Pavan
> >
> > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM, >> Jith911 <jithuja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > > > I am getting the following error
> >
> > > > > D/WifiHW  (   63): Unable to open connection to supplicant on
> "/data/
> > > > > misc/wifi/e
> > > > > th0": No such file or directory : 2
> > > > > "
> >
> > > > > But the socket exists at the above said location. And i have given
> all
> > > > > permissions for that. Also i checked the path in
> /hardware/libhardware/
> > > > > wifi/wifi.c . Both are matching. Still I am getting the error. Also
> > > > > the interface name is also correct.
> >
> > > > > Any idea??
> >
> > > > > Thanks,
> >
> > > > > JJ.
> >
> >
> >
>

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