Re: Trying to start the supplicant...

[krash <mr krash gmail com>]

2007/10/15, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:25 +0200, krash wrote:
> > 2007/10/14, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 16:08 +0200, krash wrote:
> > > > Hi friends,
> > > > I have a trouble with NetworkManager on my Slackware 12.0.
> > > > I have a notebook with bcm4318 wireless chipset; wireless is powered
> > > > by ndiswrapper.
> > >
> > > You need to either:
> > >
> > > 1) install dbus 1.1.0 or higher with system bus activation capability
> > dbus version is 1.1.2 and process running is:
> >
> > # ps ax |grep dbus
> >  2394 ?        Ss     0:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> >  2637 ?        Ss     0:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-address 18
> > --print-pid 20 --session
> >  2663 ?        S      0:00 dbus-daemon --session --print-address --nofork
> >
> > > 2) start wpa_supplicant as a service at startup with the "-u" option
> > >
> > I have tried to start wpa_supplicant as service before Networknamager,
> > but nothing. Also I have start wpa_supplicant with debug option: when
> > Networkmanager start i see in log of wpa_supplicant that
> > Networkmanager add a network interface, but in log of Networkmanager i
> > see always "Trying to start the supplicant..."
> > what is "-u" option?
>
> It tells wpa_supplicant to start its D-Bus control interface, which is
> how NetworkManager drives wpa_supplicant.  This requires wpa_supplicant
> 0.5.7 or later.
>

Hi,
my version of wpa_supplicant is 0.5.7 but don't have -u option. Do i
search new version?
kad