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

On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 22:55:18 David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:30:10PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > ....
> > Thanks. I had quick look into that and I currently do not see an easy
> > way to address that issue, as in tell wpa_supplicant about the device's
> > state. This might change though once a newer wpa_supplicant has been
> > imported.
> 
> I'm not entirely surprised -- a quick look I took at sys/dev/iwn seemed
> to indicate to me that whiule iwn(4) could whine about the switch, it
> didn't have much in the way of ability to actually provide information
> about that status in some other way (e.g., a non-zero return from
> attempt to mess with the device).  But I don't claim extensive expertise
> in that area.

There is ieee80211_notify_radio(), granted iwn(4) misses the calls.. that 
function is supposed to notify upper layers about the radio state (0 = off, 1 
= on). Anyways, once wpa_supplicant import/update is done, I'll probably have 
a look into that again.

> > For now just add wpa_supplicant_flags="-qqqq" to rc.conf.
> :
> :-}  That, or decide to ignore the silly messages....  Noted, thanks.
> 
> Peace,
> david

-- 
Bernhard