On Tuesday, 30 August 2022 23:26:00 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm having problems, even running as root. As per the previous > message, the system is detecting the hardware, but wpa_aupplicant cannot > get going. I have a minimal /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > update_config=1
If you have enabled the wheel group and your user is a member of this group, then you won't need to run things as root: DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=0 # (group can be either group name or gid) Alternatively, you can add your users gid instead. > From https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wpa_supplicant#Using_wpa_cli the > command for debugging is... > > wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -C/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ > -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd > > ...to which I appended ">>logfile.txt 2>&1" to grab all output. I > waited for a minute or so, and got the logfile which I've attached. Any > ideas? To state the obvious, this shows your key is not accepted: nl80211: set_key failed; err=-22 Invalid argument Also I can see: key_len=0 Does this message mean you are using no passwd authentication? If so you have to state explicitly: set_network 0 key_mgmt NONE in wpa_cli when you try to authenticate with your AP, or in /etc/ wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf add a fall back configuration at the end of the file for all open APs: network={ key_mgmt=NONE } You can add BSSID, SSID to the above if you only want to use no authentication with a specific AP rather than anything which might be within range. BTW, key and passphrase are not the same thing. A passphrase must be entered in quotations, or use wpa_passphrase to generate the preshared key from it: ~ $ wpa_passphrase MY_SSID "My secret passphrase" network={ ssid="MY_SSID" #psk="My secret passphrase" psk=f90ff73cefa452385366f5278f64914fa832b61a5225d3c78dcd4291061b56a1 }
