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
next prev parent 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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