Dan McGhee wrote:
> It has been so very, very long since I have worked with the
> bootscripts. I have just forgotten. Please pardon this really basic
> question.
>
> If I want to bring up my wireless card, will <ifup wifi0> work
> backwards, using the service scripts in /etc/sysconfig, or do I need to
> run 'ifup' twice? <ifup wlan0 && ifup wifi0>
>
> I have all the correct files installed for wpa_supplicant and dhcpcd and
> wlan0. I reviewed 'ifup' and the only variable it works with is ${1},
> and in this case it was wifi0. I got the messages that dhcpcd and
> wpa_supplicant had started on wlan0, but when I tried to ping my router
> I got the message "NETWORK NOT AVAILABLE."
>
> I probably needed to say that I'm doing this from chroot environment. I
> disconnected from my router and turned off the card in Ubuntu. Then I
> ran the 'ifup' command in chroot. In 'dmesg' I saw that the kernel was
> trying to associate, but there was no message that wlan0 was ready. I'm
> thinking that I didn't trigger the udevd event that I thought I would.
>
> I thought that in one of my previous LFS builds, I had used my network
> in the chroot environment. I remember using wget and lynx from a
> terminal, but I just can't remember if it was in chroot or after I
> booted into the LFS system.
>
> I know I'm missing something pretty simple, but I just can't dredge it up.
No, you are not missing something simple. I don't have a wireless
device so I've never tried to set that up. However, I do know enough
that the wireless card must be able to connect to the access point and
then dhcp needs to get the address.
There is a capability in the scripts to use multiple services. For
instance, a bridged network does:
ONBOOT=yes
IFACE=br0
SERVICE="bridge ipv4-static" # Space separated
IP=192.168.0.22
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
PREFIX=24
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
CHECK_LINK=no # Don't check before bridge is created
STP=no # Spanning tree protocol, default no
INTERFACE_COMPONENTS="eth0" # Add to IFACE, space separated devices
IP_FORWARD=true
For wireless, there would need to be something like:
SERVICE="wireless dhcpcd"
The device may need to be specified separately with something like:
WIRELESS_DEV=wlan0
In any case, we don't have a wireless service right now, although we do
have a dhcpcd service.
-- Bruce
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