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Yet Another WIFI issue
When I try 'wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "mylongssid" "mylongkey")'
I receive this error:
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface
I was on my wifi at home this morning surfing the web and then I went to school (So I hopped to a different WIFI in other words)
It seems no matter what I do with netctl, iw, wifi-menu, and ip link that nothing works. Currently I do know how to set wlan0 up/down, restart my netctl profiles, display iw stuff, scan with iw, etc.
But I do not seem to know enough. Can anybody help by providing some debug commands?
Last edited by bobeflick (2014-11-07 14:40:02)
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Please edit your post and change your title to one that actually describes your issue: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_Post
Step through the manual connection process to determine why the interface is not up.
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wpa_supplicant is the manual connection process? No?
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It's part of it. Work through the whole thing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nual_setup
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wpa_supplicant is the step where I receive an error. I did all the other steps before my first post, except for the adhoc stuff.
Last edited by bobeflick (2014-11-06 20:24:10)
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What card and driver are you using? What drivers does your wpa_supplicant support?
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Some Broadcom chip that has b43 firmware.
I will post the output of the lspci in a few moments. I have to transfer some output via a flash drive.
Here is the output of some stuff:
http://pastebin.com/8vNyHZWs
My drivers worked fine this morning at my house, and they usually work at school after a reboot. So I am not sure why you need driver info. My question was what debug commands can help me diagnose my wpa_supplicant error? As in what log files can I check? If I could find a log with a more descriptive error, I might be able to fix my WIFI. Or possibly some logs for netctl? I really do not know, since networking is usually magic in all the easier linuxes I have used in the past.
Thanks for the really quick responses by the way I have never had such a fast help response for any other distro.
Edit: I should note that both my home and school networks have the same type of WPA security.
Update: When I booted my labtop at home, I ran wifi-menu and voila my home network was working. I will try the WIFI at school again tomorrow and post another update after that.
Update 2: Running wifi-menu at school worked today. I have no clue why it did not work yesterday. (I really should setup netctl-auto)
Last edited by bobeflick (2014-11-07 14:39:03)
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