Re: Is the Wii wifi usable?

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Leo Lundberg wrote:
> I got the firmware installed, thank you! It seems to work since I can run 
> ifconfig bwi0 up without error. I've been following chapter 24.2.1 from 
> the wiki to connect to my router but when I run 'service wpa_supplicant 
> reload' after configuring wpa_supplicant.conf I get "Failed to connect to 
> non-global ctrl_ifname: (nil) error: Inappropriate ioct for device"

Sounds like wpa_supplicant is not running.

Did you ever run "service wpa_supplicant start" (or reboot after
adding "wpa_supplicant=YES" to /etc/rc.conf)?


  Harold