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

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 16:53, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> 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

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.

For now just add wpa_supplicant_flags="-qqqq" to rc.conf.

--
Bernhard