What pid does it get when you stop the process and start a new one; 5872 or is that only when you first start up? I had a problem similar to that a while ago but I haven't used my wireless card in ages...
On 8/22/07, Daniel V. Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use wpa_supplicant with madwifi and everything works perfectly with > one strange exception. At boot time, when net.ath0 tries to start, it > complains that the address is still in use and doesn't start! I look at > the process list and find wpa_supplicant is always running when I start. > Interesting, also, is the fact that it is always running with the same > pid (5872). I can stop the process and net.ath0 starts perfectly. > > I've checked over the configuration and all is well, and I've looked > over the logs and nothing seems askew. Hell, I can't even find the > error in the logs... This means, unfortunately, that I have nothing to > present in the way of an error... I do remember that the error at boot > has something to do with wpa_ctrl. > > I hope you fine fellows can piece something together with this or give > me some documentation I might read. > > Thanks. > >
