On Tuesday 02 March 2010 07:04:44 Oliver Joa wrote: > Package: wpasupplicant > Version: 0.6.10-1 > Severity: important > > Same Problem like in Bug #567710. > > On my System there is a wpa_supplicant running all the time: > > 13169 ? S 0:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s > > I configured my Wireless-Interface like this: > > allow-hotplug wlan0 > iface wlan0 inet manual > pre-up /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 txpower auto > wpa-driver wext > wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/home.conf > post-down /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 txpower off > > If I do a ifup wlan0, the wpa_supplicant is started twice, the already > running process is not stopped. There is a conflict and the wlan0 does > not work. > > I tried to stop the running process, but it restarts suddenly. > I replaced the /sbin/wpa_supplicant by a shell script with a sleep 86000 > and killed the process so that it can not restart again. After this > I replaced the binary with the original one and made a ifup wlan0 and it > worked. > > What is the Problem? Why is "/sbin/wpa_supplicant -u -s" always running? > On my other Laptop with Lenny there is no process running.
You have network-manager, WICD or some other software installed which starts it. All these other softwares conflict with settings made in /etc/network/interfaces to an extent. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
