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jsfan
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 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:15 am Post subject: [resolved] How to debug connections with wpa_supplicant? |
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I have a wireless card which runs on the ipw3945 driver. I tried to naively copy the configurations from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw394
but that didn't work.
I'm pretty sure that my ESSID and PSK are right but nothing happens. My problem now is that I can't find anything in the logs
that would help me to debug this. Does wpa_supplicant log anywhere at all? How do you debug a wpa_supplicant connection
to a WPA encrypted wireless?
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Sachankara
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: Re: How to debug connections with wpa_supplicant? |
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Run everything manually. Start up your wifi with "ifconfig eth1 up", then start wpa_supplicant with "wpa_supplicant -D your-driver -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and finally log into another console and run "dhclient eth1" or similar (depends on which dhcp client you're running).
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wynn
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You can also add | Code: | | -d Increase debugging verbosity (-dd even more) |
to the wpa_supplicant command line.
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jsfan
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| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: Re: How to debug connections with wpa_supplicant? |
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| Sachankara wrote: | | Run everything manually. Start up your wifi with "ifconfig eth1 up", then start wpa_supplicant with "wpa_supplicant -D your-driver -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and finally log into another console and run "dhclient eth1" or similar (depends on which dhcp client you're running). |
Thanks. I didn't know that you could do that. wpa_supplicant actually throws a lot of errors about a lot of operations not being supported. I guess I'll have to put some time into that...  |
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