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alexmatos

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 124

[SOLVED] netcf2 wireless connection not starting at boot: wpa_suppl...

Hello,

I've been having issues with netcfg2 connecting to my wireless network, but until today I always could easily do

netcfg2 bdp

after boot and everything was just OK. Today I started playing a little with TIMEOUT and DHCP_TIMEOUT values to see if I could fix this and out of nowhere I started getting some wpa_supplicant errors. Now not only I can't connect at boot but also I get this error when trying to connect manually:

netcfg2 bdp
:: bdp up                                                                    [BUSY]
ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
Delete '/var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0' manually if it is not used anymore
Failed to initialize control interface '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.

           - wpa_supplicant did not start, possible configuration error      [FAIL]

Here's my profile bdp, for the record:

CONNECTION="wireless"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
SCAN="yes"
SECURITY="wpa"
ESSID="network-name-here"
KEY='very-large-key-here'
IP="dhcp"
DHCLIENT="yes"
DCHP_TIMEOUT=20
TIMEOUT=30

Any clues?

Last edited by alexmatos (2009-06-24 12:08:48)

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

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Re: [SOLVED] netcf2 wireless connection not starting at boot: wpa_suppl...

If this happens, you can usually fix it by:

sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo rm -rf /var/run/wpa_supplicant

Don't worry, it shouldn't be a permenant problem 

Scott

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alexmatos

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 124

Re: [SOLVED] netcf2 wireless connection not starting at boot: wpa_suppl...

If this happens, you can usually fix it by:

sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo rm -rf /var/run/wpa_supplicant

Don't worry, it shouldn't be a permenant problem 

Scott

Wow, that's was a quick response!

I forgot to mention that I always do that and I can connect, but it comes back after every boot.

zenlord

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Registered: 2006-05-24

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Re: [SOLVED] netcf2 wireless connection not starting at boot: wpa_suppl...

That means that wpa_supplicant is not stopped correctly.

Try to stop wpa_supplicant manually and then reboot - see what happens when you try to connect to your network.

Zl.

firecat53

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Re: [SOLVED] netcf2 wireless connection not starting at boot: wpa_suppl...

What does your rc.conf look like? Is it trying to start networking a couple of different ways, perhaps?

Scott

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alexmatos

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From: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 124

Re: [SOLVED] netcf2 wireless connection not starting at boot: wpa_suppl...

What does your rc.conf look like? Is it trying to start networking a couple of different ways, perhaps?

Scott

Maybe it is. This is the relevant part:

NETWORKS=(ethernet bdp hdm allan)
AUTO_NETWORKS=(auto-wireless wlan0)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @net-profiles @net-auto netfs crond @cpufreq @sensors alsa hal fam @mysqld !mpd @openntpd @httpd gdm)

I read that I should not put wireless profiles under NETWORKS, only wired ('ethernet' in my case). I'm going to try that now and come back for feedback.

EDIT:

Nice guess, Scott! I changed to

NETWORKS=(ethernet)
AUTO_NETWORKS=(auto-wireless wlan0)

and it seems to be working OK (I rebooted a couple of times and it all went well). I must say this is indeed much more clear for wireless profiles, since I don't want to put every one of them in my rc.conf. The odd thing is that it used to work with my old config until I changed the profile by adding DHCP_TIMEOUT=20 and removing DHCLIENT="yes".

Thanks to all who helped! This is now solved.

Last edited by alexmatos (2009-06-24 12:02:33)