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I have not used wpa_supplicant before, so am confused as to whether a valid connection is being made. I used wpa_passphrase to get a psk and made that output my wpa_supplicant.conf. I then connect with:

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

and this is the output:

rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device
ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: Operation not permitted
wlan0: Trying to associate with e8:04:62:23:57:d0 (SSID='Guest' freq=2412 MHz)
wlan0: Associated with e8:04:62:23:57:d0
wlan0: WPA: Key negotiation completed with e8:04:62:23:57:d0 [PTK=CCMP GTK=CCMP]
wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to e8:04:62:23:57:d0 completed (auth) [id=0 id_str=]

It seems to connect but there are errors at the start, what do they mean? Do they affect the connection or does this look like I am connected correctly? I ask this as I try to give wlan0 an address with dhcp pr udhcpc and it does not get one, any idea why?

I have tried these two wpa_supplicant.conf's

network={
        ssid="Guest"
        #psk="xxxxxxxx"
        psk=<numbers>
}

and

update_config=1
network={
        ssid="Guest"
        proto=RSN
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        pairwise=CCMP TKIP
        group=CCMP TKIP
        psk=<numbers>
        }

Both give the same thing

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  • Try with sudo or as root – Milind Dumbare Mar 19 '15 at 11:51
  • Hi Miline it's a root shell. – Paul Mar 19 '15 at 11:52
  • Can you paste your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf – Milind Dumbare Mar 19 '15 at 12:00
  • Does your system have /dev/rfkill? Does your kernel have RFKILL enabled? – Milind Dumbare Mar 19 '15 at 12:08
  • @Miline I pasted them above now, I dont see any reference to rfkill which might be why I get the error, but would it affect my connection if I dont have it? – Paul Mar 19 '15 at 12:14
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Those two errors of rfkill are by Rfkill, a tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices. Most of the time the kernel does not have rfkill enabled in it. And so there is no /dev/rfkill file present, and rfkill command will give errors like rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device

Control device here means /dev/rfkill

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  • How can you get around this problem? Is there an alternative solution that doesn't require using Rfkill? – Andrew Mar 14 '18 at 15:58
  • Which problem? Enabling/Disabling rfkill or? – Milind Dumbare Mar 14 '18 at 22:06
  • I guess my question is this: Are the rfkill errors preventing successful connection? – Andrew Mar 15 '18 at 5:53
  • I don't think so. Its just that rfkill interface might not be available if rfkill is not available. – Milind Dumbare Mar 15 '18 at 22:16

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