Re: Trying to start the supplicant...

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 23:53 +0200, krash wrote:
> 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?

Did you build wpa_supplicant with CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS=y ?

> kad