[vox-tech] wpa_supplicant on debian jessie

Rōnin Dusette djyoshabyd at gmail.com
Sat Jul 4 15:10:44 PDT 2015


That sounds like a driver problem. What Wi-Fi card and which drivers have
you tried? If it's Broadcom, have you tried b4x-cutter (I think it's called
that. Been a while since I had to use it.)? Or possibly ndiswrapper?
On 4 Jul 2015 14:34, "Richard Harke" <paleopenguin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been having trouble with wifi for several weeks now. Multiple tries
> to connect,
> then the connection drops at random times. I have just bought a new Acer
> laptop
> and installed jessie but the problems persist. I was at starbucks and
> after connection,
> the connection would drop in 4 to 6 seconds. Then I noticed in syslog that
> the wpa_supplicant is cycling on and off at about that rate. One of the
> messages
> in syslog suggested deleting /run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0 which I did. But it
> reappeared a few seconds later. There is also a
> /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlan0
> which seems rather odd.
>
> Any clues, anybody??
>
> Richard
>
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