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From: Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] wifi statup backgrounds
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 00:21:54
Message-Id: F59BD51F59033B4A88AE75CC7AB27DAF0335BD1A@shqw2ke001.optus.com.au
1 > > When i start my wifi network (with wpa_supplicant in debug mode) it
2 > > backgrounds and I cant see the rest of the debug messages.
3 > > How do i stop the backgrounding?
4 >
5 > Make sure of two things:
6 >
7 > 1. At /etc/conf.d/net, you add the "-d" to the line
8 >
9 > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="<whatever> -d"
10
11 I already have wpa_supplicant_ath0="-dddd -Dmadwifi"
12
13 > 2. That you start the net.wlan0 service as
14 >
15 > /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 --verbose start
16
17 That doesn't seem to make any difference. I still get;
18 Added interface ath0
19 Daemonize..
20 [ ok ]
21 * Starting wpa_cli on ath0 ...
22 [ ok ]
23 * Backgrounding ...
24
25 > Optionally, you can also run
26 >
27 > tail -f /var/log/everything/current &
28
29 I don't seem to have that file, and I only get hardware related stuff in
30 my messages file.
31
32 Any other ideas? The ath0 interface also starts itself automatically,
33 even though I havent set that up with rc-update.
34
35 Cheers,
36 Adam
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