Hello Riccardo, Riccardo Mottola writes: > [...] > I have copied over the wpa_supplicant.conf file from a linux computer > where network works: ssid and key are known to be good. > > When I try to launch wpa_supplicant, I get: > # wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iipw0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf > Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant > > and "nothing more". I expect some more chatty stuff about keys and other > stuff I see on Linux. I see that the WiFi LED comes up and blinks, but > ifconfig tells me the "status" is "no network" although it is attached > to the correct ssid. > > Running dhclient/dhpcd on the interface yields nothing. > > What's wrong? I see no errors to work on. I'm not sure if it will contains a lot of information or not but usually when I need to diagnosticate wpa_supplicant problems I just fire up wpa_cli(8) in order to look what's happening (in interactive mode).
My wpa_supplicant.conf also contains the following two lines in order to use it as a user in "wheel" group too: ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel [...] Ciao, L.
