netcfg = borked, or did I miss a crucial change?

futuremonkey · 2009-04-04 21:43:01

Today I decided to pacman -Syu and all seemed to be fine except that netcfg no longer works.

It fails when called from rc.conf, and running

# netcfg my-wireless

(where "my-wireless" is the name of my netcfg profile conf) results in the error message:

wpa_supplicant: invalid option -- 'w'

Then it displays the output you would get from running "wpa_supplicant --help"

However, my configs seem to be correct, because I can run

# wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/conf ; dhcpcd eth0

and the connection goes as planned.

It's a minor but annoying problem. If it's all my fault, I'd be happy if someone could show me the errors of my ways.

paulingham · 2009-04-04 22:28:55

This is also happening for me in conjuction with wpa_supplicant. netcfg fails to start the profile and gives invalid option -- 'w'.

This only happens in wpa_supplicant-0.6.9-1 and is fine with wpa_supplicant 0.5.11-1. I downgraded the package on noticing it didn't work.

ataraxia · 2009-04-04 23:03:42

Looks like netcfg needs an update for the new wpa_supplicant. It no longer supports the "-w" flag (wait for interface to be added, if needed). Someone that actually uses netcfg should file a bug on it. (I don't use it, so I wouldn't be able to test any fix.)

The flag is set on line 91 of /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr . Until it's fixed, you can try removing it from the command there.

n8schicht · 2009-04-05 11:07:21

ataraxia wrote:

The flag is set on line 91 of /usr/lib/network/wireless.subr . Until it's fixed, you can try removing it from the command there.

Thank you very much

Allan · 2009-04-05 12:03:17

An updated netcfg was supposed to be moved with the wpa_supplicant updated but was missed. Should be making its way to mirrors now.

greenfish · 2009-04-05 13:14:47

same issues here, tried commenting/removing the line on 91, but that didn't solve my problem, instead of that long error string i get "wpa_supplicant config error" instead. I've tried using netcfg from the testing branch but im recieving lots of errors "package not found" etc, I guess it's still being uploading?

Thank You

Last edited by greenfish (2009-04-05 13:16:04)

Stalafin · 2009-04-05 15:19:07

You are not supposed to kill the entire line; instead, you have to change it to have it look like this:

 wpa_supplicant -B -P/var/run/wpa_supplicant_${INTERFACE}.pid -i${INTERFACE} -c $WPA_CONF $WPA_OPTS

Notice that wpa-supplicant is called with 'wpa_supplicant -B' instead of 'wpa_supplicant -wB' as it was before.

paulingham · 2009-04-05 18:28:28

The package update is now appearing by the way, so this should be resolved.

greenfish · 2009-04-06 08:46:11

Stalafin wrote:

You are not supposed to kill the entire line; instead, you have to change it to have it look like this:
 wpa_supplicant -B -P/var/run/wpa_supplicant_${INTERFACE}.pid -i${INTERFACE} -c $WPA_CONF $WPA_OPTS
Notice that wpa-supplicant is called with 'wpa_supplicant -B' instead of 'wpa_supplicant -wB' as it was before.

cheers that did the trick

borrell · 2009-04-06 09:32:09

Awesome, that got it working again. Thanks, I knew it should have been something simple like that

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#1 2009-04-04 21:43:01

netcfg = borked, or did I miss a crucial change?

#2 2009-04-04 22:28:55

Re: netcfg = borked, or did I miss a crucial change?

#3 2009-04-04 23:03:42

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#4 2009-04-05 11:07:21

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#5 2009-04-05 12:03:17

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#6 2009-04-05 13:14:47

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