After emerging wpa_supplicate-0.4.3-r1 net.eth1 will no longer start and wpa_supplicant daemon will not load. /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start gives the following error: Starting eth1 * Starting wpa_supplicant on eth1 ... ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: Operation not supported [ ok ] * timed out Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.2.2, 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j12" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/harrisl/overlay" SYNC="rsync://custom2/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd eds emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Which version of sys-apps/baselayout? Which version of net-wireless/ipw2200? Did you try rebooting after upgrading?
Evidently the wpa_supplicant daemon will not load if the it can not find an AP with a matching ssid in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. I thought I would be able to use wpa_cli to configure and connect to a new access point interactively before adding it to the conf file. wpa_cli cannot be used this way until wpa_supplicant is loaded. Shouldn't the wpa_supplicant daemon load even if it can't find an AP with the right ssid? Then wpa_cli could be used in a similar fashion to iwconfig. I am using ipw2200-1.0.6 and baselayout-1.11.13
No, you will need to set up /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf prior to using wpa_supplicant as noted in the ebuild.
