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imrehg

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From: Taiwan

Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 114

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wifi-radar upgrade broken for anyone else?

I just upgraded wifi-radar today to the latest (2.0.s02-1). Since then it stopped working altogether.

When I run it as user (as it was before and should be), just dies with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/wifi-radar", line 3354, in <module>
    fileLogHandler = logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler(confFile.get_opt('DEFAULT.logfile'), maxBytes=64*1024, backupCount=5)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 107, in __init__
    BaseRotatingHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/handlers.py", line 59, in __init__
    logging.FileHandler.__init__(self, filename, mode, encoding, delay)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 801, in __init__
    StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 820, in _open
    stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/wifi-radar.log'

It didn't need permission to write to /var/log before this update, and I don't think it was logging there...

Also, if I run it as root, of course permission is not a problem, but then it dies with wpa_supplicant/dhcpd syntax errors:

/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant: invalid option -- ' '
wpa_supplicant v0.6.9
Copyright (c) 2003-2009, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors

This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)

usage:
  wpa_supplicant [-BddhKLqqtuvW] [-P<pid file>] [-g<global ctrl>] \
        -i<ifname> -c<config file> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] [-p<driver_param>] \
        [-b<br_ifname>] [-f<debug file>] \
        [-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] \
        [-p<driver_param>] [-b<br_ifname>] ...]

drivers:
  wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
  nl80211 = Linux nl80211/cfg80211
  atmel = ATMEL AT76C5XXx (USB, PCMCIA)
  ndiswrapper = Linux ndiswrapper
  wired = wpa_supplicant wired Ethernet driver
options:
  -b = optional bridge interface name
  -B = run daemon in the background
  -c = Configuration file
  -C = ctrl_interface parameter (only used if -c is not)
  -i = interface name
  -d = increase debugging verbosity (-dd even more)
  -D = driver name
  -g = global ctrl_interface
  -K = include keys (passwords, etc.) in debug output
  -t = include timestamp in debug messages
  -h = show this help text
  -L = show license (GPL and BSD)
  -p = driver parameters
  -P = PID file
  -q = decrease debugging verbosity (-qq even less)
  -u = enable DBus control interface
  -v = show version
  -W = wait for a control interface monitor before starting
  -N = start describing new interface
example:
  wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd: unknown option `-i'

Anybody else having these issues?
Cheers...

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: wifi-radar upgrade broken for anyone else?

Yup, same here.  I can disconnect my wireless connection that is started with netcfg but I can't reconnect.  I can still use it to check signal strength on wireless points but I'm using wifi-select for the actual connection now.  Wifi-radar can't seem to get an ip address anymore.  Dhcpcd was just upgraded awhile ago too so not sure if that is causing some sort of problem in wifi-radar but there's no problem with wifi-select.  I'll stick with that now as I've been using it more anyway.

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treefiddy

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Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 8

Re: wifi-radar upgrade broken for anyone else?

Having a similar problem. Dhcpcd might be the problem. I keep getting the error "dhcpcd: unknown option `-i'"
Sometimes I can get it to connect but then it only stays connected for about 30 seconds to a minute.

DarkMind

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Registered: 2005-02-22

Posts: 68

Re: wifi-radar upgrade broken for anyone else?

same problem here

robinson

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Registered: 2009-08-29

Posts: 1

Re: wifi-radar upgrade broken for anyone else?

Is this still a problem in the WR 2.0.s05-1 package @ http://www.archlinux.de/?page=PackageDe … ckage=6355 ?