Dream Router 7

[siganberg]

I'm trying to setup this on my UDR7 but I keep getting this error

wpa_supplicant -i eth3 -D wired -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
eth3: Unsupported driver 'wired'
eth3: CTRL-EVENT-DSCP-POLICY clear_all

Any idea where I can get wpa_supplicant with wired driver?

[evie-lau]

Interesting... this wpa_supplicant should work. Can you check what version it is? Later in the guide you'll download the packages to the gateway - check if the version matches up.

Besides that, did you confirm eth3 is correct? I don't really have a way of finding out, but it seems right to me looking at the UDR7 page. (My heuristic is physical port number minus one for ethX number, which lines up in your case for the ethernet WAN port)

[siganberg]

Yes, its eth3. UDR7 seems zero base index for eth. eth4 is for SFT+ 10gb and WAN1, WAN2 is eth3.

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[siganberg]

Here's my version just using apt install

I tried to download the package manually using later instruction:

wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.9.0-21_arm64.deb

But this version cannot be found:

[evie-lau]

It looks like the old url in the instructions got renamed on Debian's end.

I do have a note to check this site for the latest link: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/arm64/wpasupplicant/download

[artpotter]

I have a Express 7 and ran into this as well. The default install already has wpa_supplicant installed but it's not built with support for the wired driver. The default is at /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant so we need to install and use the version from the main doc. For me this was:

cd /etc/wpa_supplicant/packages
wget http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.9.0-21+deb11u3_arm64.deb
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.9.1-1_arm64.deb
dpkg -Ri /etc/wpa_supplicant/packages

This will install the version with wired driver support to /sbin/wpa_supplicant so we can specify that with

/sbin/wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -D wired -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

This let it auth and connect successfully - need to figure out the systemd part now to have it run at reboot.

[evie-lau]

The default install already has wpa_supplicant installed but it's not built with support for the wired driver. The default is at /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant so we need to install and use the version from the main doc.

Just to confirm, are you saying the wpa_supplicant installed via apt install -y wpasupplicant does not have support for the wired driver?

That's interesting.. not sure if something has changed since I wrote the guide, or for some reason the package is different from what I get on the UXG-Lite

[siganberg]

I have a Express 7 and ran into this as well. The default install already has wpa_supplicant installed but it's not built with support for the wired driver. The default is at /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant so we need to install and use the version from the main doc. For me this was:

cd /etc/wpa_supplicant/packages
wget http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/w/wpa/wpasupplicant_2.9.0-21+deb11u3_arm64.deb
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pcsc-lite/libpcsclite1_1.9.1-1_arm64.deb
dpkg -Ri /etc/wpa_supplicant/packages

This will install the version with wired driver support to /sbin/wpa_supplicant so we can specify that with

/sbin/wpa_supplicant -i eth1 -D wired -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

This let it auth and connect successfully - need to figure out the systemd part now to have it run at reboot.

Have you figured it out how to start it automatically using different wpa_supplicant version?

[siganberg]

Nevermind, the same instruction setting the systemctl works too withi this supplicant version.