Fedora Core 8-WLAN card not getting activated , wpa_supplicant initialization failing

[j.gohel]

Got it.I am able to connect to the wireless network.

I just stopped the wpa_supplicant service from system/adminstration/services.

But another problem has risen up.I am not able to open up any website.Error page comes saying that the website is taking too long to respond

Please note that in the Firewall/Trusted Interfaces/wlan0 is checked.

Also my Mozilla Firefox takes along time to start up.

Please help me resolve this.

Thanks,
Jignesh

[odcheck]

As short background Information.
I've got a Notebook (Latitude C400 with a IntelPro Wireless 2100 MiniPCI)
Fedora 8 installed, Gnome Desktop.
- NetworkManager and Dispatcher are - chkconfig off
- wpa_supplicant is 2,3,5 enabled.
I use DHCP with wpa_supplicant (and yes it works)
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Code:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="my_network"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP TKIP
        group=CCMP TKIP
        psk="secret_password"
}

For the working DHCP thing I've just did it like this
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
.... onboot = no
.... dhcp = yes
and within the /etc/rc.local
I set the command
/sbin/ifup eth1
so wpa_supplicant connects to the wireless
and then rc.local issues the interface to be up and reads the ifcfg DHCP
Peng, Bummm it works.

So now the problem one
It's a Laitude D410 with a IntelPro Wireless 2200 MiniPCI
I did nearly the same but when the system starts
wpa_supplicant can't start cause it's arguing regarding some missing ctrl_iface_dbus thing. file missing or not found.

But when I issue the command manually
Code:

wpa_supplicant -d -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -ieth1 -Dwext

It works.

So I want to know how what file he is looking for?
Cause /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf is present... otherwise
my manually start of that wpa_su...... -i etc... won't also work.
But it does.

So why does it work if I start the command manually?
It must have something to do with the DBUS ( the new init system )
Thats what I guess is also your problem