Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:56:35 -0600 From: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Starting the wpa_supplicant Daemon from rc.conf Message-ID: <201312102156.rBALuZ6a000955@x.it.okstate.edu>
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We are using 802.1x on our wired network and the wpa_supplicant on this system works like it should to authenticate with the network if manually called as in sudo ./etc/testwpa which is the name I gave the script that calls wpa_supplicant and gives it the configuration file and interface information to authenticate. The only thing that is not yet working is getting wpa_supplicant to authenticate automatically upon reboot or startup. I presently have the following in /etc/rc.conf: #wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant_enable="YES" wpa_supplicant_program="/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant" #executable wpa_supplicant_flags="-B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i le0" The test script doesn't daemonize so there is no -B flag. We send: sudo wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D wired -i le0 We get messages saying that the authentication was successful and the port opens. There are no log entries until I ran the sudo command in the test so I don't think that wpa_supplicant is ever run by the command in rc.conf. Thanks for all constructive ideas. Martin McCormick
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