On Wednesday 27 October 2004 7:57 pm, Ti Kan wrote:
Here are the questions.
1. What's a good place to insert the command to start the wpa_supplicant daemon? It seems that it matters when wpa_supplicant should be started. Start it too soon before the network is configured, and it doesn't work. Wait too long after I manually configure things, and it doesn't work either. Also, wpa_supplicant needs to be killed when the network is stopped, or else it seems to bring up the interface again (without fully configuring everything). So I need also some tips on where to insert the command to stop wpa_supplicant during network shutdown.
Can't help there, I'm looking for that same answer.
2. Any concrete examples of what the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-* file should look like? I wonder if I am missing something.
I left mine set the same way it was set for WEP.
3. Any thoughts why DHCP doesn't work when I enable the interface and start wpa_supplicant?
The dhcpdc client has to be run _after_ wpa_supplicant is started. I also found that I had to bring eth0 down (even though I was not hooked up to a wired network). With etho0 down, dhcpdc is able to get the settings, just takes a while (a couple of minutes), then everything starts working. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.5-7.111-default x86_64