[PROBLEM] wpa_suplicant not started automatically

[quaelgeist]

Hi. I mainly wanted to confirm this issue, which still seems to be unfixed in verison. 6.5.2 2020-05-03

A more appropriate title for this thread would have been "I can't get moOde to come up in WiFi client mode"

I agree. It seems to be the essential issue.

I expect you aren't entering a key but a passphrase (aka password) which is converted into a pre-shared key (PSK) after it is entered. 

Yes, this is correct, but matters very little from the users perspective. What I was entering was the passphrase.

Does your passphrase by any chance contain non-ASCII characters

No. It does not. My passphrase only contains numbers. Way more than 8, way less than 63

If your passphrase is strictly ASCII and between 8 and 63 characters long then we have more digging to do to figure out why you player isn't associating with your AP.

That is the case. More digging it is. Here is what I was doing step by step, as verbose as I seem necessary

• loading the image from http://moodeaudio.org/
  
• unzip
  
• flash using etcher on an 8gb micro sd card
  
• put the sd card in the RPi2
  
• put the ethernet cable
  
• put power
  
• following: https://github.com/moode-player/moode/bl.../setup.txt
  
• http://moode
  
• ignore all the audio setup for now
  
• Menu, Configure, System
  
• b) Select appropriate timezone then SET
  
• Expand Storage and reboot (still with ethernet plugged)
  
• Leave ethernet connected
  
• Insert wifi adapter (while Pi running)
  
• Menu, Configure, Network
  
• Scan for SSID
  
• Find my own SSID in the network
  
• Select WPA/WPA2 personal
  
• Enter the correct passphrase
  
• Set the country to Germany
  
• Hit Save
  
• Shutdow
  
• Remove the ethernet cable
  
• Plug and unplug the power to boot it up
  
• Cannot access http://moot, neither does my router find a new network device
  
• plugin the ethernet again
  
• can access http://moot again
  
• Go to network
  
• under "Address assignment" the message "Unable to activate AP mode" is shown.
  
• no wifi connection
  

I am using a Raspberry Pi 2 and a TPLink tl-wn725n wifi usb device which is generally well supported on various Raspberry Pi systems and Linux distributions https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/tl-wn725n/