Hello. I’ve newly installed gentoo, and my wireless hasn’t been working. I’ve
tried to google and use the wiki to find the answer, but was unable to.
If people require more information from my system, feel free to ask. I’ve been
trying to manually configure the file for it to work. I’m using WPA2 personal
security on my wifi.
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/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
update_config=1
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel
network={
ssid=“myssid”
#psk=“mypsk”
psk=(the longer form of the psk generated by the terminal command to
find this)
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
group=CCMP TKIP
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
}
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running the command “wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211 -iwlp3s0
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf" gives the output
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it
Delete ‘/var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0’ manually if it is not used anymore
Failed to initialize control interface ‘DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
GROUP=wheel’.
You may have another wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was
left by an unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you will need
to manually remove this file before starting wpa_supplicant again.
nl80211: deinst ifname=wlp3s0 disabled_11b_rates=0
I wanted to ask before manually deleting /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0 in case
this could do anything to damage my new system. Is the next step to delete
/var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0, or is there another step which I should take in
order to connect with my wifi.
Thanks.
