On Fri, 10 Jan 2014, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Ok, got it installed and I can get the interface to scan and I can see all > of the available cells (all of my neighbors), including my own. However > when I do a test connect, this is what I get back: > > Trying to associate with e0:46:9a:35:fb:98 (SSID='Nymphadora' freq=2412 MHz) > ioctl[SIOCSIWFREQ]: Device or resource busy > Association request to the driver failed > Associated with 00:00:00:00:00:00 > CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=e0:46:9a:35:fb:98 reason=0 > > Over and over and over again. > > Please note, NetworkManager is still running. If I stop NM, that interface > disappears and an attempt to scan tells me: > >> iwlist wlan0 scan > wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down > > So evidently, I need NM running for the interface to be present. How can I > do that without NM? > > > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org> wrote: > >> <snip> >> >>> Great ... now how do I configure this sucker? When I turn NM off, that >>> interface disappears. I'm assuming I can create an 'ifcfg-wlan0' >>> configuration but what do I need to put in there so it knows to connect >> to >>> my home wireless (with password) and all of that fun and exciting stuff, >>> and continue to do that over a reboot. >> >> Using wpa_supplicant. If it is not installed, yum install >> wpa_supplicant and you will need to edit /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant >> and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. Examples are in >> /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant-* or plenty of them online .. You probably >> also need to rename/mv the SXXwpa_supplicant in your /etc/rcX.d to start >> wpa_supplicant before network. You don't need NM. I don't ever use it. I wonder if NM is causing the problem. I would stop NM and make sure you have wpa_supplicant set up right .. or at least the part in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant and then stop network and wpa_supplicant, start wpa_supplicant and try iwlist wlan0 scan.