Re: failed to create llentry

[coypu%sdf.org@localhost]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 09:03:20PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 21/11/2018 19:51, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> > -B -M -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -s seem like really good flags,
> > thanks.
> > (are they good enough to be a default? right now anyone using wifi has
> > to have wpa_supplicant_flags set, so we can't break their usage)
> 
> Yes and no.
> We would need to ship a default wpa_supplicant.conf - probably enabling the
> default socket so wpa_cli(8) just works and commented out entries for
> connecting to any open ap and a specific ap with psk.
> 
> We might want to enable (but commented out maybe to start with) the ability
> instructions over the control socket to configure wpa_supplicant.conf as
> well.
> This would be handy for applications like dhcpcd-{gtk,qt}
> 
> Then, the user just has to set wpa_supplicant=YES in rc.conf and voila,
> wireless network setup with X11 and a systray application becomes a lot
> easier for the end user to setup.
> 
> > I can't unplug my card because it's PCI.
> > 
> > I'll try to investigate next time it happens
> 
> Another way of restarting things is to down/up the interface.
> 
> ifconfig urtwn down up
> 
> Does wonders - both wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd will react to this.
> There should be no need to kill anything with prejudice.

Yes a reboot usually does the trick, but savecore takes a while. It
would be faster to type 'reboot'