* Unruh peremptorily fired off this memo:

> I am having trouble hooking up to a wireless network. Unfortunately
> everything inthe wireless chain reports NOTHING back. One has no idea where
> in the chain the negotiations are failing. wpa_supplicant does not report
> anything to any log file-- it should be possible to have it report what it
> is trying to do and what the result is. I have tried the -d option, and
> there the reports are completely incomprehensible-- aconyms and terse
> statements comprehensible only to the original writer and I strongly
> suspect not even him. Is there some way of getting wpa_supplicant to report
> reasonable error messages to a log file somewhere? The same seems to be
> true of dhclient.
>
> Part of the real problem with the whole linux wireless thing is that linux
> does not create proper debugging information, so you know where the problem
> arises and thus have a clue as to how to fix it. Instead it seems to be
> developed on thewindows propriatary model-- report back nothing and let the
> user stew.

I usually google to find the sequence of manual commands that can be
used, then run them. They will show more information that way.

You can also (on Debian) try reading /var/log/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.log
or other files in that directory.

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