[SOLVED] Proper way to disconnect from internet via command line and wpa_supplicant

TheEzekielProject · 07-02-2017, 05:12 PM

Hello all,

I am hoping someone has a little insight and can tell me what I'm doing wrong or just not doing at all.

I normally connect to the internet via wpa_supplicant and manually setting my ip which works great. However, whenever I disconnect and try to connect again my wireless connection either takes forever to load pages (+- 2min) or just doesn't work (Temporary failure in name resolution is the usual error). I figure I am missing a step somewhere in disconnecting properly

These are the commands I use to connect

Code:

wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ip addr add 192.168.1.xxx/24 dev wlan0 #Yes, I replace the x's with an actual ip
ip route add default via 192.168.1.1

And to disconnect I just use

Code:

ip addr flush dev wlan0
ip route flush dev wlan0
ip link set wlan0 down
wpa_cli disconnect

Which does indeed disconnect me, but upon attempting to connect again I get the issues mentioned above.
What am I missing? Any insight appreciated

TheEzekielProject · 07-02-2017, 09:15 PM

After screwing around with different options, I've found I can simply disconnect and reconnect via

Code:

wpa_cli disconnect
wpa_cli reconnect

Previously I was just running wpa_cli disconnect and then running the wpa_supplicant command again, which failed.

As a note the disconnect/reconnect commands did not work for me if I also ran the

Code:

ip addr flush dev wlan0
ip route flush dev wlan0
ip link set wlan0 down

commands.

Though my issue is solved, if anyone can point me in the right direction to determining why my initial method of disconnect/reconnect did not work, I'd like to understand what was going wrong and how it differs from the solution.

Hope this helps someone else as there is no mention of these options in the wpa_cli man pages but they do appear if you look at wpa_cli help