Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Sorry, I am not sure that I understood you correctly. I don't have any
> wireless card, so I have no idea what is "normal". Are you saying that:
>
> 1) You booted the CD without the "nodhcp" parameter,
>
yup, tried with no parameters for booting on the laptop
> 2) It attempted to run dhcpcd on the wireless interface, the end result
> is that the interface is down,
>
yup, I use static ips on my network so dhcp never works.
> 3) You created a network-specific configuration file for wpa_supplicant
> and ran this program,
>
yes, I edited the wpa_supplicant conf files and added the session id
data. this, when wpa_supplicant was run, enabled the network, in
conjunction with net-setup to actually assign ip and dns to the interface.
> 4) After this, you ran dhcpcd and it got an address?
>
nope, no dhcp.
> If the above is true, please submit corrections to the /root/README file
> (it currently states that you must pass "nodhcp"). And please test
> whether the wireless connection survives hibernation.
>
It does survive hibernation, I have let the system go into hibernation
three times and never had any problems in getting back. wireless
connection never lost at all.
wpa_supplicant dumps status reports to stdout on the livecd, in both cli
only and in terminal windows the network activity is constantly dumping
to sdtout, it should be going to either a log file or /dev/null. [ log
file could eat resources to quickly in the livecd environment ]
on shutting the terminal window down and opening a new one, the status
reports do stop getting dumped to stdout.
each wireless connection has a unique network session id it need to
submit to enable connectivity. the config files also need to have
encryption key data if the connection is encrypted. these will always
need to be edited for anyone doing a wireless connection on the livecd,
unless the net-setup adds network domain data to the settings.
below is one of the conf files, with the change I need to do marked.
I'll edit the /root/README to include the edit information and post it
if it's not in there already.
# Static WEP keys
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="example wep network" << I change to jaqui-greenlees.net
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0="abcde"
wep_key1=0102030405
wep_tx_keyidx=0
}
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