Bugzilla Bug 98253

I have two problems with the init script provided in the xsupplicant-1.0.1  
ebuild.  
  
1. "/etc/init.d/xsupplicant stop" doesn't work as expected - it always gives  
me the zwo red !! and I have to delete /var/run/xsupplicant manually. Maybe 
this is an upstream problem since the kill command doesn't work either. 
 
2. Then I do not change the init script the xsupplicant is in background 
modus. This is bad for me cause xsupplicant aep-md5 (wired) authetification 
has to be finished becore I can start net.eth0. Therefore I removed the 
background option from the init script but now xsupplicant is always verbose 
on boot (showing my user + passwort!) and I can't make it be silent. 
 
3. Offtopic: Is there any chance to use variables from the xsupplicant conf 
script within non-xsupplicant init scripts (like net.eth0)? Sorry for OT - I 
you don't like it please ignore the last question. 
 
Of cause I will help to fix the init script if I can. 
 
Sebastian    

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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You should take a look at baselayout-1.11.x and wpa_supplicant:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#book_part4_chap4

After surching the web a long time I managed to get the aep-md5 authetification 
over WIRED LAN working with wpa_supplicant. Therefor the ~x86 wpa_supplicant 
0.4.x is needed. 

This is my wpa_supplicant.conf.wired: 

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant 
ctrl_interface_group=wheel 
ap_scan=0 
network={ 
        key_mgmt=IEEE8021X 
        eap=MD5 
        identity="sroeder" 
        password="uIdkO" 
        eapol_flags=0 
} 

Now I can start it in the console with: 

wpa_supplicant -ieth0 -Dwired -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.wired 

Finaly starting dhcpcd and everithing is fine. But I can not integrate this 
into /etc/conf.d/net. I tried it like this: 


# Network config for the new Gentoo baselayout > 0.11.11 on Dell Inspiron 6000 
# For reference see /etc/conf.d/net.example 

# Enable wpa_supplicant for all net.* devices 
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" ) 

# Configure wired LAN (eth0) 
# ************************* 

# Bring eth0 "UP" and prepare it for authentification 
ifconfig_eth0="up allmulti promisc" 

# Tell wpa_supplicant to use the "wired" driver for eth0 
# And to use config /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.wired 
wpa_supplicant_eth0="-Dwired -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.wired" 

config_eth0=( "dhcp" ) 
#dhcpcd_eth0="-t 30" 


But it doesn't work. Seems like wpa_supplicant is not even started cause 
wpa_cli status doesn't work either (wpa_ctrl_open can not be found). 

Is support for wired interfaces and wpa_supplicant not yet supported by 
baselayout-1.11.13? Can I fix this manually in the meantime? 

Thanks in advance for the help! I guess once this is working wpa_supplicant is 
a good replacement for xsupplicant and the integration within baselayout is a 
good approach.  

The init script should be replaced by a rcscript network module.

baselayout-1.12.0_pre10 will support wpa_supplicant over wired interfaces.
You can find instructions and patches for enabling this in
baselayout-1.12.0_pre9-r1 at the below link
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-392299-highlight-wpasupplicant.html

And yes, the xsupplicant init script should be replaces with a rcscripts net module.

(In reply to comment #4) 
 
Yes, I know cause it was me who started the thread =) It works great! 
 
Would it be an option to replace xsupplicant completely with wpa_supplicant 
(removing it from portage, as it looks like it is not maintained in Gentoo)? Or 
is there something that xsupplicant can do but wpa_supplicant can't? 
 
 

OK I mark this closed with the hint to use wpa_supplicant instead.

(In reply to comment #6)
> OK I mark this closed with the hint to use wpa_supplicant instead.

Please leave this up to the developers - the problem with xsupplicant is not
solved.

# Stefan Cornelius <dercorny@gentoo.org> (7 Mar 2007)
# Masking net-misc/xsupplicant due to security bug 154995
net-misc/xsupplicant

Use something else, like net-wireless/wpa_supplicant