Hi,
As you know, my dev capabilities are very limited. So if you need a
tester, I need some dev. :) So I'm ready to help you testing
wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools. So far I tested workarounds to blfs
via packages managers, but actually I think it's not a solution for me.
I'll come back to a proper lfs/blfs and so, I'd like to test such
improvements. I'll be ready in some hours or tomorrow to do any test
about this, as I'll start my lfs environment after I build my lfs 7.2.
Best regards,
-
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Président de l'association traduc.org
Coordinateur du projet Linux From Scratch
Coordinateur au sein du projet Trad GNU de l'April
Animateur suppléant du groupe de travail Accessibilité de l'April
Le samedi 15 décembre 2012 à 22:23 -0600, Bruce Dubbs a écrit :
> Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before starting a new LFS (and help actually the project I hope, beyond
> > sranslations), I try eliminating all things which made me suspend so
> > far. Among others I've already mentioned in other threads, I've WiFi I
> > don't find convinient, but probably because I don't know.
> >
> > My purpose is having the same behavior than on Debian. There,
> > in /etc/network/interfaces, you put:
> > auto wlan1
> > iface wlan1 inet dhcp
> > wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >
> > Then, when you start the network service, it ifups all the interfaces,
> > including wlan1 and enables wpa_supplicant automatically and connects to
> > an available network among these in wpa_supplicant.conf.
> >
> > On my LFS, I had to start the computer, once connected go as root and
> > run wpa_supplicant manually, then setting up wlan1 interface.
> >
> > Does a mechanism exist in LFS to have the same as Debian? Should I write
> > some script? So far bootscripts I tried didn't give the same efficient
> > result.
>
> We do need a capability for wifi. I'd write the script myself if I had
> a way to test it. There is a capability in the ifup program to run
> multiple services, e.g. SERVICE="wifi dhcp" should run the program
> /lib/services/wifi followed by /lib/services/dhclient (or dhcpcd).
>
> Alternatively, the script could use SERVICE="wifi ipv4-static"
>
> We would need to look at both wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools and add
> a script (or scripts) to add the service(s). The kernel seems to have
> support for Cisco/Aironet, Atmel, and Intersil Prism2/2.5/3 wireless
> chipsets.
>
> -- Bruce
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