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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:24:17
Message-Id: CAGOe-ezNfrVutnUuUwbp6DN-E4Rr=9ak8jdtagRmLK06Bm=Wcw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive) by "Jesús J. Guerrero Botella"
1 On 24 May 2012 11:50, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2 <jesus.guerrero.botella@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > So, wpa_supplicant never worked fine. It's been giving me headache
4 > since day zero, but I've been -mostly- able to handle it in one or
5 > another way.
6 >
7 > Yesterday I rebooted (I rarely do), and another horror story begun.
8 > Now I am getting this messages at init:
9
10 >  * Bringing up interface wlan0
11 >  *   Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...                          [ ok ]
12 >  *   mark_service_inactive: unknown applet
13 >  *   Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ...                                 [ ok ]
14 >  *   Backgrounding ... ...
15 >  * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start
16
17
18 > So, any idea where to start looking? :D
19
20 Add -dd in your /etc/conf.d/net to increase the log verbosity and then
21 look in your syslog messages.
22
23 You can also try invoking wpa_supplicant in a terminal and see what it
24 spews out.
25
26 BTW, just pointing the obvious ... if this is a laptop have you
27 checked with rfkill that the hardware is switched on?
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Mick