Package: wpasupplicant Version: 0.4.7-3 Severity: normal Firstly, apologies if this is already known: both #350963 and #287223 are related, but I don't think they're the same (hence this bug-report).
As the title says, running wpa_supplicant in background and wait mode against a "down" interface "ups" it. Here's some evidence: Result of running "ifconfig -s": Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth0 1500 0 563 0 0 0 629 0 0 0 BMRU lo 16436 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LRU Then run "/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -w -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" Then run "ifconfig -s" again: Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth0 1500 0 569 0 0 0 629 0 0 0 BMRU lo 16436 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LRU wlan0 1500 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 BMRU There are at least two reasons why I think this behaviour is bad: a) I want to run wpa_supplicant in the background at start-up so that it looks after my wireless connection whenever if gets "upped". I'm also using ifupdown, so the only thing which should "up" and "down" interfaces is "ifup" and "ifdown" (so that the true interface state always agrees with the contents of /etc/network/run/ifstate). If wpa_supplicant "ups" the wireless interface, then after boot-up the interface is up, but /etc/network/run/ifstate says it isn't. This is bad :( b) /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant states the following (lines 6 and 7): # However, the wpa_supplicant daemon will start, and sit waiting # for the name interface to come up.... Well, it doesn't sit waiting for the named interface to come up. It "ups" it, itself. Once again, this is bad :( Once again, apologies if this bug-report is "wrong", but hey, it's my first bug report! Hope this helps, Jaime -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.1-6 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-7 SSL shared libraries wpasupplicant recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
