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January 7, 2014 19:22
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Script for restarting wpa_supplicant in debug mode
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#!/bin/sh | |
# set wpa_supplicant debug level to 1, disable timestamps, disable show_keys | |
[ "$UID" == 0 ] || { echo "Only root can run this"; exit 0;} | |
LOG="/var/log/wpa_supplicant.log" | |
echo "Stopping NetworkManager" | |
service network-manager stop | |
sleep 1 | |
echo "Killing current wpa_supplicant" | |
pkill -9 wpa_supplicant$ | |
sleep 1 | |
echo "Starting wpa_supplicant in DBUS & DEBUG mode, log is in $LOG" | |
wpa_supplicant -dd -u -f $LOG -B | |
sleep 1 | |
echo "Starting NetworkManager" | |
service network-manager start |
What if just run sudo wpa_cli log_level debug
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May be too late. In the latest wpa_supplicant, you have to enable logging by building it with DEBUG_LOG_FILE=y in the .config file to enable the -f flag.
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could just use python to change on the fly (thanks to co-worker for code)
#!/usr/bin/python
import dbus
DBUS_PROP_IFACE = 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties'
WPA_OBJ = '/fi/w1/wpa_supplicant1'
WPA_IFACE = 'fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1'
bus = dbus.SystemBus()
proxy = bus.get_object(WPA_IFACE, WPA_OBJ)
wpas = dbus.Interface(proxy, DBUS_PROP_IFACE)
debug_level = wpas.Get(WPA_IFACE, "DebugLevel")
print(debug_level)
debug_level = wpas.Set(WPA_IFACE, "DebugLevel", "info")
debug_level = wpas.Get(WPA_IFACE, "DebugLevel")
print(debug_level)