wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start

Troubleshooting
1

Hi forum,
Love Dietpi interface.
Using dietpi on rock64 board via eth0.
Enabled wifi via dietpi-config.
Which then downloaded netplug in background.

root@DietPi:~# ifup wlan0
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
ifup: failed to bring up wlan0

Changed :/etc/network/interfaces/interfaces to:

# Wifi
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.0.150
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
wireless-essid U-8-Dingle******s
wireless-key my-password
wireless-mode Managed
wireless-power off
wpa-ssid U-8-Dingle******s
wpa-psk my-password
#dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Thanks in advance
-sam

2

Try putting the ssid in double quotes " in the /etc/network/interfaces/ file

wireless-essid U-8-Dingles
and
wpa-ssid U-8-Dingles

to wireless-essid"U-8-Dingle******s" no spaces between ssid and the double quote "

Also I believe there should be an = sign between the descriptor and the value, with no spaces

#=Wifi
allow-hotplug=wlan0
iface=wlan0=inet=dhcp
address=192.168.0.150
netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=192.168.0.1
wireless-essid=“U-8-Dingles"
wireless-key=“my-password”
wireless-mode=Managed
wireless-power=off
wpa-ssid="U-8-Dingles”
wpa-psk=“my-password”
#dns-nameservers=8.8.8.8=8.8.4.4

3

I had the same problem on a tinkerboard install. I changed my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant to:

allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
    wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
4

Apologizes first forum joined that had the email reply notifications off.

# Wifi
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
address 192.168.0.150
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
wireless-essid "U-8-DingleB*****s"
wireless-key "password"
wireless-mode Managed
wireless-power off
wpa-ssid "U-8-DingleB*****s"
wpa-psk "password"
#dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

Did ifup wlan0 got this:

root@DietPi:~# ifup wlan0
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
ifup: failed to bring up wlan0

then attempted wpa_supplicant.config manipulation via second post and realized currently there is no wpa_supplicant.config file in the directory /etc/wpa_supplicant. Is there one required to be there?

root@DietPi:/etc/wpa_supplicant# dir
action_wpa.sh  functions.sh  ifupdown.sh

Also how do I view the system log? I have spent hours googling, I get the information about how ram-log is setup to delete every hour by default ok, but how do i view it?(htop?) Also lsmod only has 2 modules used neither of which are wifi related. In the past expected a driver for the wifi device.I noticed that at the top of network interfaces file there are comments that highly recommend using dietpi interface to edit network settings. Also the coding for the files in wpa_supplicant are very well written and aren’t simply one liners. Optimization is key but looking through some else’s code trying to understand the layout becomes cumbersome due to complexity.

Thank you for your time,
Sam

5

System log is still in /var/log but in compressed format in RAM (I believe)

cat /var/log/system

Going to need someone else to join the fray…