On 24 May 2012 11:50, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella <jesus.guerrero.bote...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, wpa_supplicant never worked fine. It's been giving me headache > since day zero, but I've been -mostly- able to handle it in one or > another way. > > Yesterday I rebooted (I rarely do), and another horror story begun. > Now I am getting this messages at init:
> * Bringing up interface wlan0 > * Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... [ ok ] > * mark_service_inactive: unknown applet > * Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... [ ok ] > * Backgrounding ... ... > * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start > So, any idea where to start looking? :D Add -dd in your /etc/conf.d/net to increase the log verbosity and then look in your syslog messages. You can also try invoking wpa_supplicant in a terminal and see what it spews out. BTW, just pointing the obvious ... if this is a laptop have you checked with rfkill that the hardware is switched on? -- Regards, Mick
