On Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:21:22 José Jorge wrote: > hi, I am willing to get AdHoc WiFi working automaticaly on Mageia 1. For > now, with drakxtools : > > - OK : connect to an existing AdHoc network > - BAD : no IP address is assigned if no dhcp daemon is found.
I believe if you have zcip installed, it should get an IP address assigned, however: > - CORRECTION : launch "avahi-autoipd ethX" I think we should be using avahi-autipd instead of zcip. > > So it does not work without CLI. So questions to have this working at least > on MGA2: > > 1. Should this be done on drakxtools or network-manager ? initscripts. See line 380 of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth > 2. Does anyone with drakxtools knowledge think it can be patched it to do > that? Sure, the script above could have zcip replaced with avahi-autoipd. However, the man page for avahi-autoipd points one at this wiki page: http://avahi.org/wiki/AvahiAutoipd which recommends using the DHCP plugin instead. Maybe you could experiment, and see exactly what is necessary (sorry, all my wifi networks have DHCP servers). Regards, Buchan
