[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: wpa_supplicant does not associate till it is restarted ?

[Kel Modderman]

On Sunday 06 August 2006 14:14, B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did manage to get wpa_supplicant to associate but for some reason
> the scripts that come along with wpa_supplicant do not invoke dhclient.
> The problem with association was due to the loading of the drivers.
> It turns out the best way to load the ipw3945 driver (IMHO) is to
> start the binary daemon first with --timeout=-1 option and then
> load ipw3945.
>
> Has anyone else had problems with wpa_supplicant and dh_client ?
> I have made no modification to the scripts in regard to invoking
> dhclient.

Best is to use something like:

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
	wpa-driver wext
	wpa-conf /path/to/wpa_supplicant.conf

In the /etc/network/interfaces file. And when you are having problems, please 
give this information. I do not know how to help otherwise.

Do not use the custom dhclient scripts, they are bad magic. Let ifupdown take 
care of that.

Thanks, Kel.