Wpa_supplicant log file

Asked 8 years, 1 month ago. Active 5 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 18k times. I am trying to troubleshoot a wireless connection on FreeBSD. Improve this question. Anthon 74k 41 41 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Yes I know I can use -f and -d, but I want it to be automatically set when the service starts I don't have experience with FreeBSD, but according to freebsd.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. But I am becoming lost in the chain of startup scripts, systemd, subdirectories, network manager, etc. Greg K1UH. Code: Select all -u Enabled DBus control interface. If enabled, interface definitions may be omitted. To explain further, I am assisting some other hams in our club that are using Pi-Star Pi Zero W hotspots over WiFi tethered to their smartphones for mobile operation.

If the command works to connect, and the user wishes to use systemd to manage the wireless connection, it is necessary to edit the [email protected] unit provided by the package and modify the ExecStart line accordingly:. When you use wireless to connect to network shares you might have the problem that the shutdown takes a very long time. That is because systemd runs against a 3 minute timeout. The reason is that WPA supplicant is shut down too early, i.

A bug report suggests a work-around by editing the [email protected] as follows:. However, this approach is rather insecure. Make sure to define the following within the network block of the config to enable connections to pure WPA3 access points:. Note: Because of the process substitution, you cannot run this command with sudo and must use a root shell , see Help:Reading Regular user or root for more explanations.

Just pre-pending sudo will lead to the following error:. Note: Hashing the password does not improve the security nor avoid the risk of exposing secrets. Tip: This setup can be used during system installation as well, though you may want to run using [email protected] adapter. It is filled with uncommented network examples that may lead to random errors in practice FS This is useful when using mutiple or removable e.