Re: Trying to start the supplicant...

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:20 +0200, krash wrote:
> 2007/10/16, Tambet Ingo <tambet gmail com>:
> > On 10/16/07, krash <mr krash gmail com> wrote:
> > > my version of wpa_supplicant is 0.5.7 but don't have -u option. Do i
> > > search new version?
> >
> > Yes, it means your wpa_supplicant is compiled without dbus support and
> > won't work with NetworkManager 0.7. If you decide to build
> > wpa_supplicant from sources, it needs a
> >
> > CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS=y
> >
> > line in .config file.
> >
> > Tambet
> >
> 
> Hi
> no i haven't enabled dbus in config file because i have used a
> original package. Now i have compiled with options and it works!!
> If i start wpa_supplicant daemon before NetworkManager, all works, but
> isn't dbus capable to start wpa_supplicant automatically? In other
> post i see that there is a file in /usr/share/dbus-1/services. I don't
> have it.

Yes, if you have the right .service file
in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ then NM will request that dbus
automatically start wpa_supplicant.  And dbus should be able to do that.

Dan

> What is the content?
> Thanks