27 Dec
2021
27 Dec
'21
1:49 p.m.
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:52:19 -0800
William Morder via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
On Saturday 25 December 2021 14:26:22 E. Liddell
wrote:
Did you have the daemon running in the background? The various
configurators for wpa_supplicant act as clients with the daemon as
a server.
Back to basics. Your /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file should
contain a line that sets ctrl_interface to something (no idea what the
recommendations for your distro are), and one that says "update_config=1".
Open two konsole (or whatever) windows. In one, issue (tack on sudo
if required):
# killall wpa_supplicant
# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
That should restart the daemon in the foreground in debug mode. In the
other konsole:
# wpa_cli
Unless some error message pops up in the boilerplate, at the new prompt
say "scan" and then "scan_results". If at that point, it gives you an
ugly
table of SSIDs, everything is working as it should, and you can tell it
"quit" and try wpa_gui again.
E. Liddell
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021 11:40:26 -0800
Is wpa_supplicant installed, or are you genuinely
trying to configure
everything via wireless_tools (iw*)?
E. Liddell
I didn't want anybody to think ill of me, that I was averse to new
experiences, so I poked around and found that wpa_supplicant has a wpa_gui.
So I fired it up, entered all the necessary information, shared key, etc.,
and I get a message "Could not get status from wpa_supplicant".