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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant annoyances (mask_service_inactive)
From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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On 24 May 2012 11:50, Jes=FAs 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:

> =A0* Bringing up interface wlan0
> =A0* =A0 Starting wpa_supplicant on wlan0 ... =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0[ ok ]
> =A0* =A0 mark_service_inactive: unknown applet
> =A0* =A0 Starting wpa_cli on wlan0 ... =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 [ ok ]
> =A0* =A0 Backgrounding ... ...
> =A0* 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?
--=20
Regards,
Mick