Re: wpa_supplicant gets points for trying, I suppose....

From: David Wolfskill <david_at_catwhisker.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:53:10 -0700
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:40:54AM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> ....
> > > I have the switch on this laptop in position to disable the wireless
> > > device (iwn(4)).  Is there some way wpa_supplicant (or something) might
> > > be able to recognize that this is a pointless exercise?
> > 
> > Well iwn could bring device down when radio is turned off and
> > bring it up when radio is turned on ???
> 
> Well, that should actually be the case. I don't see how it might differ 
> between stable/8 and head.
> 
> Can you post the output of
> wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d
> while the RF kill button is in disabled state?
> 
> > > I don't recall stable/8 doing this, though I could be wrong.

Next time I booted stable/8, I checked /var/log/messages, and verified
that wpa_supplicant is also persistent in that environment.

So I did the above within script(1); I've attached a copy of the
typescript file.  This was done while running:

FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #20 r214672: Tue Nov  2 04:19:13 PDT 2010

Peace,
david
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