WiFi works automatically with NetworkManager, but not manually with wpa_supplicant?

[ronald]

Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> Everything's set up properly AFAICT, and WiFi connects fine with
> NetworkManager, but if I disconnect and try to reconnect manually with
> wpa_supplicant, I get the following error:
> 
> ]# wpa_supplicant \
> -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf \
> -i eth1 \
> -D ndiswrapper
> 
> "Association request to the driver failed"
> 
> The full log is here:
> 
> http://www.genesis-x.nildram.co.uk/filez/wpa.log.txt
> 
> The wpa_supplicant.conf looks like this:
> 
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
> 
> network={
>         ssid="Genesis-WiFi"
>         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>         proto=WPA
>         pairwise=TKIP
>         group=TKIP
>         psk=*********
> }
> 
> I'm using the bcmwl5 (Broadcom) ndiswrapper driver, on FC5 x86_64.
> 
> Like I said, WiFi *does* work (when activated using NetworkManager), but
> manually running wpa_supplicant fails.
> 
> Also "service wpa_supplicant start" just produces a heap of errors like:
> 
> Starting wpa_supplicant: ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
> ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
> Could not configure driver to use managed mode
> ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
> Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
> 
> How do I specify the device and interface in the wpa_supplicant
> configuration file, for the benefit of starting it as a service? The man
> page says nothing about that.
> 

/etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant

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