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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:20:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGOe-ezNfrVutnUuUwbp6DN-E4Rr=9ak8jdtagRmLK06Bm=Wcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMix8LEexY5hBGHOgh4iYGjvJHdPeMmybiHYXW-wGY_w1wKAJw@mail.gmail.com>

On 24 May 2012 11:50, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
<jesus.guerrero.botella@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, wpa_supplicant never worked fine. It's been giving me headache
> since day zero, but I've been -mostly- able to handle it in one or
> another way.
>
> Yesterday I rebooted (I rarely do), and another horror story begun.
> Now I am getting this messages at init:

>  * Bringing up interface wlan0
>  *   Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ...                          [ ok ]
>  *   mark_service_inactive: unknown applet
>  *   Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ...                                 [ ok ]
>  *   Backgrounding ... ...
>  * ERROR: net.wlan0 failed to start


> So, any idea where to start looking? :D

Add -dd in your /etc/conf.d/net to increase the log verbosity and then
look in your syslog messages.

You can also try invoking wpa_supplicant in a terminal and see what it
spews out.

BTW, just pointing the obvious ... if this is a laptop have you
checked with rfkill that the hardware is switched on?
-- 
Regards,
Mick



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-24 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-24 10:50 [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive) Jesús J. Guerrero Botella
2012-05-24 13:20 ` Mick [this message]
2012-05-24 13:31 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-05-24 13:50   ` Jesús J. Guerrero Botella

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