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

[Z F]

Dear Kel,

THank you very much for your responce. I was looking at 
the /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant but did not look at README.modes.gz
file. After looking through it several times and comparing it with
my network/interfaces, I understood what the problem was. I
accidentally commented out wpa-conf line. No wonder it was not working.
I spent
several hours yesterday and today to figure this out.

Thank you very much for your kind help.
Lazar

PS. I noticed that the README.modes file sais that ndiswrapper
driver should not be used with ndiswrapper 1.16 or newer. Could you 
explain what it means. I have ndiswrapper 1.3 and it works.

--- Kel Modderman <kelrin at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> 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.
> 


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