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wpa_supplicant not installed properly

Asked by dinuaustin on 2009-05-23

Hi,

have Ubuntu 9.04. wpa_supplicant installed but wpa_supplicant not present in /var/run/. I reinstalled wpa_supplicant twice. Any ideas?

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Solved by:: Steven Danna

Solved:: 2009-05-23

Last query:: 2009-05-23

Last reply:: 2009-05-23

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Steven Danna (ssd7) said on 2009-05-23:

The actual executable will not be in /var/run/. /var/run is for
run-time variable data. The actual executable should be
/sbin/wpa_supplicant.

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said on 2009-05-23:

Hi,

I agree with Steven.

The following command (which wpa_supplicant) will show the actual location of the wpa_supplicant executable file:

$ which wpa_supplicant
/sbin/wpa_supplicant

$ file /sbin/wpa_supplicant
/sbin/wpa_supplicant: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped

Regards,

Mark

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dinuaustin (laptop-dinu) said on 2009-05-23:

Steven,

I created wap_supplicant.conf file rebooted and I'm on-line! Thank You

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 17:51 +0000, Steven Danna wrote:
> Your question #72086 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/72086
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Steven Danna proposed the following answer:
> The actual executable will not be in /var/run/. /var/run is for
> run-time variable data. The actual executable should be
> /sbin/wpa_supplicant.
>

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dinuaustin (laptop-dinu) said on 2009-05-23:

Mark,

I created wap_supplicant.conf file rebooted and I'm on-line! Thank You

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 17:59 +0000, Mark Rijckenberg wrote:
> Your question #72086 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/72086
>
> Mark Rijckenberg proposed the following answer:
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Steven.
>
> The following command (which wpa_supplicant) will show the actual
> location of the wpa_supplicant executable file:
>
> $ which wpa_supplicant
> /sbin/wpa_supplicant
>
> $ file /sbin/wpa_supplicant
> /sbin/wpa_supplicant: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, stripped
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>