[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#559040: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 for interface with rfkill enabled

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi again,

Am Dienstag, den 01.12.2009, 14:07 +0100 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> since a short while (maybe kernel 2.6.31, not sure), wpa_supplicant (in
> roamding mode) does not start when the rfkill switch for my wireless
> interface is enabled:
> 
> $ /sbin/wpa_supplicant -s -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid -i wlan0 -W -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
> 
> strace output:
> 
> munmap(0x7f145716f000, 4096)            = 0
> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4
> socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 0)         = 5
> bind(5, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=00000001}, 12) = 0
> ioctl(4, SIOCGIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="wlan0", ifr_flags=IFF_BROADCAST|IFF_MULTICAST}) = 0
> ioctl(4, SIOCSIFFLAGS, {ifr_name="wlan0", ???}) = -1 ERFKILL (Unknown error 132)
> dup(2)                                  = 6
> fcntl(6, F_GETFL)                       = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
> fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0620, st_rdev=makedev(136, 3), ...}) = 0

here is the output from running wpa_supplicant with "-dd", if that
helps:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132
Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
Failed to initialize driver interface
Failed to add interface wlan0
Cancelling scan request
Cancelling authentication timeout


Greetings,
Joachim

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