I'm running OpenMediaVault (Debian variant) and I'm trying to setup wireless networking but not getting anywhere. I've used wpa_supplicant on Slackware in the past but I forget the config settings I used. The wpa_supplicant documentation I'm finding is not very helpful or I'm not reading them right.
ex)
https://blog.nelhage.com/2008/08/usi...-debianubuntu/
https://www.debuntu.org/how-to-wifi-...pa-supplicant/
Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file
Code:
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# eth0 network interface
auto eth0
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
# wlan0 network interface
auto wlan0
#allow-hotplug wlan1
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
My /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Code:
# reading passphrase from stdin
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="SSID_Name"
#psk="Hidding This"
psk=SOME_CRAZY_STRING
}
Now when I try to run 'ifup wlan0, I get the following
Code:
root@debian:/etc/network# ifup wlan0
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.2
Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
Listening on LPF/wlan0/50:46:5d:4c:1c:a2
Sending on LPF/wlan0/50:46:5d:4c:1c:a2
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
send_packet: Network is down
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: Network is down
^C
I see wpa_supplicant daemon can't be started. I think I'm missing a lot here. Does anyone have a good reference to setting up WPA2 wireless on a debian machine?
Thanks,
Nick
