wpa_supplicant not running [Solved]

[gbr]

Hi,

I have an IBM Thinkpad T40 with a Cisco Aironet 802.11b card. KNetworkManager sees my network, but refuses to connect. It always stops at 28%, and then fails. The logs so me the return value to phase 2 of the connection fails, wpa_supplicant does not return 'OK'.

After some searching, I see that wpa_supplicant is not running at all. On my Gateway laptop, I can see wpa_supplicant started with '-g /var/run/wap_supplicant-global'.

So, on the Thinkpad, I did:

# wpa_supplicant -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant-global

Now, when I use KNetworkManager, the network connects perfectly. Where should wpa_supplicant be launched from? What am I missing? The same issue occurred with the livecd environment.

Sabayon 3.4a

Thanks,

Gerald

[gbr]

No answer, so I threw it into /etc/conf.d/local.start. It works.

Gerald