[SOLVED] cant start wpa_supplicant missing libnl3

evocarz · 09-19-2014, 09:55 PM

hi, im trying to set up my wlan connection, but when i try to start wpa_supplicant, it keeps tellling me that "error while loading shared libraries:libnl-3.so.200: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Code:

locate libnl-3
/usr/doc/libnl-3.2.21
/usr/doc/libnl-3.2.21/COPYING
/usr/doc/libnl-3.2.21/ChangeLog
/usr/lib/libnl-3.la
/usr/lib/libnl-3.so.200
/usr/lib/libnl-3.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libnl-3.0.pc
/usr/lib/libnl-3.so.200.16.1

i have tried to reinstall both , libnl3 and wpa_supplicant , updatedb, but it keeps giving me the same error.

Thank you.

jdkaye · 09-20-2014, 02:22 AM

Can you tell us what distro you're using. For example I'm using Debian Jessie and libnl-3.so.200 is found here:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-3.so.200
The package name is: libnl-3-200
The version is: 3.2.24-2
jdk

knudfl · 09-20-2014, 02:38 AM

Looks like you are just missing a link.

This example is libnl3-200-3.2.25-1.2.x86_64, /usr/lib64/ :

Code:

libnl3-200/                libnl-idiag-3.so.200@
libnl-3.so.200@            libnl-idiag-3.so.200.20.0*
libnl-3.so.200.20.0*       libnl-nf-3.so.200@
libnl-cli-3.so.200@        libnl-nf-3.so.200.20.0*
libnl-cli-3.so.200.20.0*   libnl-route-3.so.200@
libnl-genl-3.so.200@       libnl-route-3.so.200.20.0*
libnl-genl-3.so.200.20.0*

http://download.polytechnic.edu.na/p...s/suse/x86_64/

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evocarz · 09-21-2014, 03:02 AM

Im using slackware 14.1 64bits . Where should i link it?

knudfl · 09-21-2014, 03:17 AM

Code:

$ cd /usr/lib64/ 
# ln -s libnl-3.so.200.20.0 libnl-3.so.200

evocarz · 09-21-2014, 06:20 PM

i checked my /usr/lib64 folder and there wasnt any libnl3 files , so i linked my libnl-3.so.200 file from /usr/lib to /usr/lib64, but now when i try to start wpa_supplicant it says "erro while loading shared libraries:libnl-3.so.200 wrong ELF class:ELFCLASS32"

evocarz · 09-21-2014, 06:27 PM

thank you for your support , i just solved the problem, it seems that, i dont know why it installed libnl3 32bits version by default because i didnt touch anything related to libs at all from clean install , i just checked the packages from var/log/packages and the version was i486 , uninstalling it and installing a 64bits version solved the problem.