[pkg-wpa-devel] wpa_supplicant config problem after a recent unstable upgrade

[Kel Modderman]

Hi Lazar,

On Tuesday 22 August 2006 07:36, Z F wrote:
> Dear wpa_supplicant maintainers,
>
> I was wondering if you could clarify how to deal with the
> wpa_action thing...
>
> I have a relatively simple (I think) WEP wireless network and it was
> working before a recent upgrade of debian unstable. After the upgrade
> it stopped working and I got a message about wpa_action.
>
> I read the man page and thought, that the only thing I should do
> is to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file and remove
> wpa_action string (which was pointing to
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/supplicant.conf)

I am confused, please provide the old configuration and the new one, along 
with the version numbers of the wpasupplicant packages used.

wpa-action was deprecated in favour of wpa-roam, but wpa-action took an custom 
action script as its option, not a configuration file like you describe.

>
> This however did not restore the network connectivity.
>
> The only way I can connect is to change
> iface .... dhcp
> to
> iface .... manual
> and manually run dhcp to get the ip address.
>
> Based on the results, I think that my understanding of simply
> removing wpa_action was wrong. But from reading the manual pages
> I do not see what else has to be changed. Could you suggest
> what should be done. Maybe it is described somewhere, as it must be
> a common problem, I just could not find any information.

/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz

That document really contains all the help I can currently provide, I could 
possibly provide more given the information requested above.

Thanks, Kel.