ok i thought i'd post up some debug info of errors see if anyone else can work this out.
logcat of attempting to power up wifi through android gui D/SettingsWifiEnabler( 455): Received wifi state changed from Disabled to Enabling D/WifiService( 145): ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED pluggedType: 0 E/WifiHW ( 145): Unable to open connection to supplicant on "/data/ system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0": No such file or directory D/SettingsWifiEnabler( 455): Received wifi state changed from Enabling to Enabled I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=2 I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Ready I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Ready E/SettingsWifiLayer( 455): Unable to scan for networks I/NotificationService( 145): enqueueToast pkg=com.android.settings callback=android.app.itransientnotification$stub$pr...@43df0c40 duration=1 I/ARMAssembler( 145): generated scanline__00000177:03515104_00001A01_00000000 [ 73 ipp] (98 ins) at [0x4136a0:0x413828] in 213623 ns E/WifiHW ( 145): Unable to open connection to supplicant on "/data/ system/wpa_supplicant/wlan0": No such file or directory I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=1 I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 15 received I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 0 received I/wpa_supplicant( 463): CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=0 D/SettingsWifiEnabler( 455): Received wifi state changed from Enabled to Disabling E/WifiHW ( 145): Supplicant not running, cannot connect D/SettingsWifiEnabler( 455): Received wifi state changed from Disabling to Disabled E/WifiHW ( 145): Supplicant not running, cannot connect V/WifiStateTracker( 145): Connection to supplicant lost D/NetworkStateTracker( 145): setDetailed state, old =IDLE and new state=DISCONNECTED D/ConnectivityService( 145): ConnectivityChange for WIFI: DISCONNECTED/DISCONNECTED but if i do the following from 2 adb sessions : 1st session: # wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd -w ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device Could not configure driver to use managed mode ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: Network is down 2nd session: insmod /system/lib/modules/wl12xx.ko wpa_cli -p /data/system/wpa_supplicant wpa_cli v0.5.11 Copyright (c) 2004-2008, Jouni Malinen <j...@w1.fi> and contributors This program is free software. 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Selected interface 'wlan0' Interactive mode > scan OK <2>CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=2 > <2>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS Ready <2>CTRL-EVENT-STATE-CHANGE id=-1 state=1 > scan_results bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid 00:01:e3:e9:06:d0 2462 169 [WPA-PSK-TKIP+CCMP][WPA2-PSK- TKIP+CCMP-preauth] OrangeE906CE 00:23:48:63:3a:27 2462 169 [WPA-PSK-TKIP] SKY14886 00:14:6c:f0:35:02 2462 168 [WPA-PSK-TKIP] 00:18:4d:60:dd:46 2437 203 [WEP] SKY37397 same route that android seems to use but wpa_cli works ? will check all permissions again now On May 16, 6:32 pm, DJ_Steve <steve103...@gmail.com> wrote: > wpa supplicant works fine if i launch it in a adb shell session and i > can then connect via wpa_cli and execute commands, just seems the > android ui isnt doing the same and it does throw errors related to > wpa_supplicant but i cant see why it does > > On May 16, 6:29 pm, Ashwin Bihari <abih...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > You've gone through the Wifi setup steps and created the necessary > > sockets for wpa_supplicant to operate and all that? > > > Regards > > -- Ashwin > > > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:04 PM, DJ_Steve <steve103...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hello, its me again, ok im getting annoyed with a seemingly pointless > > > problem im having, > > > im trying to get ehe driver for the wl1251 wifi in my n900 working - > > > the module loads, calibration load etc but android wifi subsystem will > > > not scan for networks (keeps saying unable to scan) yet i can use > > > wpa_cli myself via adb to scan and retrieve the list of networks quite > > > hapily. > > > > any ideas appreciated and i can post logcat output etc if needed > > > > -- > > > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > > -- > > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting