Re: Wpa Supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 12:34 +0100, Jirka Klimes wrote:
> On Sunday 19 of February 2012 17:58:09 Almo Nito wrote:
> > Hey Guys, im Trying to get Networkmanager to work together with wpa
> > supplicant.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > They are both started fine with the dbus option but networkmanager doesn't
> > seem to interact with wpa supplicant (it neither tells that is running in
> > the logs nor sees access points)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > What exactly do I want to look for to make sure wpa_supplicant and
> > networkmanager see each other and can communicate?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > regards
> 
> NM normally starts wpa_supplicant and talks to it via D-Bus. If something goes
> wrong, you should be able to reaveal in logs.

Also, if you're building your own supplicant you need to make sure the
D-Bus interface is enabled in the build config file you're using, so
that'll be something like:

CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS=y
CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_NEW=y
CONFIG_CTRL_IFACE_DBUS_INTRO=y

Dan

> You see NM logs in syslog (etc. /var/log/messages on Fedora)
> and wpa_supplicant logs in something like /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log
> 
> To get more detailed logging look at:
> http://live.gnome.org/action/edit/NetworkManager/Debugging#wifi
> 
> Also, for increasing NM logs, you could use 
> --log-level=<level>
> --log-domains=<domain1>,<domain2>,...
> options.
> See 'man NetworkManager' and man Networkmanager.conf'
> 
> Jirka
> 
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