421835 – wpa_supplicant will only work with wlan0, not wpi0

Bug 421835 - wpa_supplicant will only work with wlan0, not wpi0

Summary: wpa_supplicant will only work with wlan0, not wpi0

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo/Alt
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	FreeBSD (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 FreeBSD

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo/BSD Team

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Keywords:	PATCH

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Reported:	2012-06-18 19:51 UTC by Andy Gebauer
Modified:	2012-06-18 21:03 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Attachments
wlanchange init.d script (wlanchange,368 bytes, text/plain) 2012-06-18 19:59 UTC, Andy Gebauer	Details
wlanchange init.d script (attachment.cgi.txt,373 bytes, text/plain) 2012-06-18 21:01 UTC, Andy Gebauer	Details
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Description Andy Gebauer 2012-06-18 19:51:55 UTC

Comment 1 Andy Gebauer 2012-06-18 19:59:30 UTC

Created attachment 315705 [details]
wlanchange init.d script

Comment 2 Andy Gebauer 2012-06-18 20:02:02 UTC

wpa_supplicant will not work with wpi0 (or any other wireless interface) unless the interface is renamed to wlan0.

In FreeBSD 9.0, the interface will be renamed to wlan0 after every reboot.
This is not working in Gentoo/FreeBSD.

The attached init file will rename the wpi0 interface (in my case) to wlan0 at every start.

Comment 3 Andy Gebauer 2012-06-18 21:01:17 UTC

Created attachment 315715 [details]
wlanchange init.d script

Change from net.wlan0 to wpa_supplicant

Comment 4 Andy Gebauer 2012-06-18 21:03:19 UTC

To make wpa_supplicant work to, add 

wpa_supplicant_args="-Dbsd"

to /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant