From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 08:05:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D53106564A for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:05:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878B18FC17 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so5378167bwz.13 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:05:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.101.82 with SMTP id b18mr13905623bko.70.1288683658048; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B0E0B05.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.14.11.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f21sm4280839bkf.12.2010.11.02.00.40.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: David Wolfskill Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:40:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-25-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: <20101101222510.GY1506@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011020840.54931.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant gets points for trying, I suppose.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 08:05:22 -0000 On Monday, November 01, 2010 23:32:49 Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 11/1/10, David Wolfskill wrote: > > FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #31 r214621M > > > > Nov 1 15:09:40 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > Nov 1 15:10:10 d130 last message repeated 3 times > > Nov 1 15:10:50 d130 last message repeated 4 times > > ... > > Nov 1 15:11:00 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > Nov 1 15:11:10 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > ... > > Nov 1 15:11:20 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > Nov 1 15:11:30 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > ... > > Nov 1 15:11:40 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > ... > > Nov 1 15:11:50 d130 wpa_supplicant[569]: Failed to initiate AP scan. > > Nov 1 15:12:10 d130 last message repeated 2 times > > Nov 1 15:14:10 d130 last message repeated 12 times > > > > I have the switch on this laptop in position to disable the wireless > > device (iwn(4)). Is there some way wpa_supplicant (or something) might > > be able to recognize that this is a pointless exercise? > > Well iwn could bring device down when radio is turned off and > bring it up when radio is turned on ??? Well, that should actually be the case. I don't see how it might differ between stable/8 and head. Can you post the output of wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d while the RF kill button is in disabled state? > > I don't recall stable/8 doing this, though I could be wrong. -- Bernhard