Re: wpa_supplicant issues

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,


On 01/19/16 11:15, Leonardo Taccari wrote:
> 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).

Well, I'm just accustomed to see some output on Linux or FreeBSD.

I launched wpa_cli, it connects but I don't see much more. What can I check?

Connection to wpa_supplicant lost - trying to reconnect
Connection to wpa_supplicant re-established
  11:39:10.487: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS
  11:39:10.709: CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS

> ifname
11:19:03.517: ipw0

Is correct.

> status
11:31:12.678: wpa_state=SCANNING
address=00:0c:f1:2e:4a:3b

it remains this way after several minutes. It appears it scans forever.

> 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
>   [...]

Those are useful when wanting to use a normal user I suppose, I was 
issuing the command as root. That's already the next step, first, get it 
to work!

Riccardo