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TheAmazingGymShorts

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From: Pennsylvania

Registered: 2013-09-08

Posts: 12

wifi-menu broken after wpa_supplicant update

Yesterday I updated wpa_supplicant, and everything was fine until I rebooted, after which I can't connect to the Internet through wifi.
When I try to use wifi-menu, It seems to be scanning, but before I get to the next screen I get "Aborted".

I've tried to connect manually, but to no avail.

I can activate it with

sudo ip link set wlp9s4 up

And I can scan for nearby networks with

sudo iw dev wlp9s4 scan | grep SSID

But when I try to connect to a network with

sudo wpa_supplicant -D nl80211,wext -i wlp9s4 -c <(wpa_passphrase "your_SSID" "your_key")

I get the following output:

Failed to open config file '/dev/fd/63', error: No such file or directory
Failed to read or parse configuration '/dev/fd/63'.

I've been trying to look up what would be causing it, or some sort of quick work around for it.  But it seems that my google-fu is not strong enough .
The only other thread I've seen with a similar problem was here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196584

If I can get any help on this, that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

PaterSiul

Member

Registered: 2015-04-01

Posts: 18

Re: wifi-menu broken after wpa_supplicant update

try and read the wpa_supplicant-config-files. You probably have "/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" and "/etc/dbus-1/system.d/wpa_supplicant.conf".

Also, try

grep -R "/dev/fd/63" /etc

. It gives you all the files in /etc, that reference /dev/fd/63