wpa_supplicant issues resolved
Howard Coles Jr.
dhcolesj at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 01:49:34 UTC 2006
On Friday 28 April 2006 13:37, Thilo Six wrote:
> Howard Coles Jr. wrote the following on 28.04.2006 03:25:
> > Just in case someone upgrades from Breezy to Dapper and uses
> > wpa_supplicant you might want to keep an eye on this.
> >
> > When I upgraded some weird things happened, most notably the script that
> > starts wpa_supplicant (/etc/init.d/wpasupplicant) was not updated to
> > reflect the new location of the daemon.
> >
> > the script has a line that says:
> > DAEMON=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
> >
> > The problem is that there was no softlink to its real location in that
> > directory.
> > You will need to change it to:
> > DAEMON=/sbin/wpa_supplicant
> >
> > Another thing that happened was that my config files were blown away,
> > however (thankfully) they were backed up. (with a dpkg extension)
> > check /etc/default for wpasupplicant (where the options for interface,
> > driver, and config file are stored).
> > check for /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf (which in the newer versions is moved
> > to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf)
> >
> > Also make sure your /etc/network/interfaces file is still what you
> > expect. I'm not sure wpa_supplicant changed this, it may have been
> > ifplugd.
> >
> > I'm still trying to figure out why udev is still creating /dev/null with
> > root only access every time the udev package is updated. However, I've
> > at least figured out the wpa_supplicant issue.
>
> Could you please put your findings in Launchpad?
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs
Bug #41989 submitted.
Thanks for the link!
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