Re: wicd trouble -- continued
On 2016-07-25 18:53, Glenn English wrote:
> What does "Verifying access point association" mean, and what do you
> do to make it OK?
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 13:03:13 (-0600), Glenn English wrote:
> > On Jul 28, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > It is wpa_supplicant which does the association and authentication. I
> > assume dhclient is used to get an IP and set up routing.
>
> Not here. There's no DHCP -- IPs are static. Wicd does the routing. I'll get DHCP running and see if that makes a difference.
>
> But the DHCP server's on the net. How can wicd get to it before there's a net? I can understand how that happens when things are on Ethernet and the connectivity's already there. I guess I just don't understand the magic of WiFi enough.
The answer may lie in the logs. Mine contains the lines
2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Setting false IP... ←----------
2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Flushing the routing table...
2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Putting interface up...
2016/07/28 07:35:38 :: Generating psk...
2016/07/28 07:35:39 :: Attempting to authenticate...
2016/07/28 07:35:44 :: Running DHCP with hostname spqr
2016/07/28 07:35:44 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient
BTW the last few lines are
2016/07/28 07:35:45 :: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
2016/07/28 07:35:45 :: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: bound to 192.168.1.15 -- renewal in 34983 seconds.
2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: DHCP connection successful
2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: not verifying ←----------
2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: Connecting thread exiting.
2016/07/28 07:35:51 :: Sending connection attempt result success
All occurrences of "verif" in the logs (going back three months)
say exactly that. Others may know what this means.
Cheers,
David.
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