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FS#14101 - wpa_supplicant does not load with netcfg

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matt Warner (coolpyrofreak) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 06:44 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 10:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To James Rayner (iphitus)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: When loading netcfg2 on a WPA network, the following error occurs:

wpa_supplicant: invalid option -- 'w'

This has only occurred since wpa_supplicant was updated on April 4.


Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
This task depends upon

Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Sunday, 05 April 2009, 10:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Simon (zralb) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 08:58 GMT
I reproduced this, too.

If you change line 91 in /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr
from
wpa_supplicant -wB [...]
to
wpa_supplicant -B [...]
it works fine again.
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 09:02 GMT
if i remember well i seen something similar on forum. try to use netcfg from testing.
Comment by Ben Duffield (bavardage) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 09:39 GMT
I reproduced this too, managed to get it to connect changing the line to
wpa_supplicant -B -P/var/run/wpa_supplicant_${INTERFACE}.pid -i${INTERFACE} -c$WPA_CONF
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 10:08 GMT
@Thomas: I think you forget to move netcfg from testing to core when moving wpa_supplicant.
Comment by Ronny (SIRSteiner) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 10:41 GMT
Same problem here.
Did the same as Simon and it works fine.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 05 April 2009, 10:47 GMT
I didn't think long enough. I forgot that without this new version, wireless will not work at all. I am very sorry, new netcfg has been moved, enjoy.

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