Re: Connection problems with wpa_supplicant already running

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 08:05 -0700, Daniel Qarras wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a weird failure scenario with current SVN trunk but I am able
> to reproduce it every time so I'm wondering is this a local hickup or
> what. I'm using Fedora 8 + latest updates + NM SVN trunk. The problem
> is:
> 
> When starting up NetworkManager, wireless connection can't be
> established. I found out that I need to stop NM, stop running
> wpa_supplicant (started during boot while networking was being started)
> and then start NM and all works well. What is weird that if I restart
> NM then everything still works (even though w_s was running). After
> testing it seems that there are connection problems only if 1)
> wpa_supplicant is already running when starting NM and 2)
> wpa_supplicant was not started by NM (but while doing "service network
> restart").

What are the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant file?
What's the command line that wpa_supplicant is started with as reported
by 'ps aux' ?

Dan