On 2016-07-25 18:53, Glenn English wrote: > What does "Verifying access point association" mean, and what do you > do to make it OK?
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 13:03:13 (-0600), Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > It is wpa_supplicant which does the association and authentication. I > > assume dhclient is used to get an IP and set up routing. > > Not here. There's no DHCP -- IPs are static. Wicd does the routing. I'll get > DHCP running and see if that makes a difference. > > But the DHCP server's on the net. How can wicd get to it before there's a > net? I can understand how that happens when things are on Ethernet and the > connectivity's already there. I guess I just don't understand the magic of > WiFi enough. The answer may lie in the logs. Mine contains the lines 2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Setting false IP... ←---------- 2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant 2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Flushing the routing table... 2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Putting interface up... 2016/07/28 07:35:38 :: Generating psk... 2016/07/28 07:35:39 :: Attempting to authenticate... 2016/07/28 07:35:44 :: Running DHCP with hostname spqr 2016/07/28 07:35:44 :: attempting to set hostname with dhclient BTW the last few lines are 2016/07/28 07:35:45 :: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1 2016/07/28 07:35:45 :: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: bound to 192.168.1.15 -- renewal in 34983 seconds. 2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: DHCP connection successful 2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: not verifying ←---------- 2016/07/28 07:35:47 :: Connecting thread exiting. 2016/07/28 07:35:51 :: Sending connection attempt result success All occurrences of "verif" in the logs (going back three months) say exactly that. Others may know what this means. Cheers, David.
