On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:27:00PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <fe754a9e-be47-4843-ab3a-2619665f1...@lastsummer.de>, Franco > Fichtne > r writes: > ... > > wpa_supplicant 2.6_2 > > > > No apparent issues with the ports, preliminary connectivity > > checks work as expected. Started a public CFT over at OPNsense > > to gather more feedback. > > Agreed. > ....
First: Thank you for doing this, Cy. I am now (also) running wpa_supplicant-2.6_2 successfully on my laptop (when it's running stable/11). I did have one mild surprise: I had rebooted my laptop to verify that the ports version of wpa_supplicant would work, and as the screen went dark, I recalled that I had failed to copy /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to /usr/local/etc -- but my concern proved to be unfounded: the wpa_supplicant.conf in /etc/ was used (successfully). Question: Should one expect a wpa_supplicant-2.6_2 executable built under FreeBSD stable/11 (amd64) to work on the same hardware, but running head? For reasons that are (at best) tangential to this topic, I track, build, and smoke-test both stable/11 and head daily, but only build the ports (daily) under (the just-built/booted) stable/11 -- depending on misc/compat11 to handle things as necessary for head. This works (well, IMO)... except that when I had configured my "head slice" to use the ports version of wpa_supplicant, the latter was apparently not happy: ... Oct 17 11:06:13 localhost kernel: wlan0: Ethernet address: 00:24:d6:7a:03:ce Oct 17 11:06:13 localhost wpa_supplicant[1279]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant Oct 17 11:06:14 localhost wpa_supplicant[1279]: ioctl[SIOCS80211, op=98, arg_len=32]: Invalid argument Oct 17 11:06:14 localhost wpa_supplicant[1279]: failed to IEEE80211_IOC_DEVCAPS: Invalid argument Oct 17 11:06:14 localhost wpa_supplicant[1279]: wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface Oct 17 11:06:14 localhost root: /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant .... The laptop spends the vast bulk of its time running stable/11, so the threat is somewhat mitigated.... Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org Unsubstantiated claims of "Fake News" are evidence that the claimant lies again. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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