easy to break wifi completely when using own wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Raspbian |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Many people need a headless setup and ssh connectivity. Google leads to this stackexchange
https:/
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A skeleton wpa_supplicant.conf file can be as little as:
network={
ssid=
psk=
key_
}
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Using this basic config does not work and breaks wifi even in Desktop mode.
Reproduce:
1. create /boot/wpa_
network={
ssid=
psk=
key_
}
2. Boot to desktop and click on Connections button top right. It's wonky and you cannot reconfigure wifi
3. Adding
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Solution:
the conf needs to include
ctrl_interface=
update_config=1
before automagically copying from /boot to /etc/wpa_
ctrl_interface=
update_config=1
being there and add if not. or just document this.