Re: Is the Wii wifi usable?

Yes, I've added wpa_supplicant=YES to rc.conf and rebooted it a few times, 
I also run 'service wpa_supplicant start' which returns that it is already 
running. But when I do "service wpa_supplicant reload" I get the 
aforementioned error.

/Leo

On Sun, 24 Aug 2025, Harold Gutch wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 09:23:21AM +0200, Leo Lundberg wrote:
>> I got the firmware installed, thank you! It seems to work since I can run
>> ifconfig bwi0 up without error. I've been following chapter 24.2.1 from
>> the wiki to connect to my router but when I run 'service wpa_supplicant
>> reload' after configuring wpa_supplicant.conf I get "Failed to connect to
>> non-global ctrl_ifname: (nil) error: Inappropriate ioct for device"
>
> Sounds like wpa_supplicant is not running.
>
> Did you ever run "service wpa_supplicant start" (or reboot after
> adding "wpa_supplicant=YES" to /etc/rc.conf)?
>
>
>  Harold
>