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Message-ID: <87egstdlvd.fsf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:49:10 +0100
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com>
To: John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de>
Cc: sabotage@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant + dhclient on boot
John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de> writes:
> Elmo Todurov wrote:
>>> On 2014-11-22, at 22:45, John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Henrique Lengler wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I want my wireless connection to automatically load on boot.
>>>> To mannualy set this up I first run # sv start wpa_supplicant
>>>> # dhclient wlan0
>>> wpa_supplicant needs a bit time to do its magic, so dhclient can
>>> only succeed after the connection is established.
>>
>> How hard would it be to extend wpa_supplicant to call a configured
>> script (say dhclient) after connecting?
>
> probably rather easy. i already hacked on wpa_supplicant once for a
> different purpose and was successful in a matter of minutes.
>
> i'd actually like wpa_supplicant to behave like this:
>
> - service is started in the background and does nothing
> - a command line frontend connects to the service and sends command to
> establish connection to a wlan with given SSID and other parameters.
> command line client runs till the connection is successfully
> established or the try failed and indicates success in both command
> line output and return value.
> - bg service keeps the connection established until told to quit by the
> command line frontend.
>
> that way, wpa_supplicant could be easily scripted and/or used with
> custom gui frontends.
> but maybe i'm just not understanding the current design properly...
I'm not sure what you are doing, but for Arch+ignite, I run
these two commands as seperate services and it just works:
dhcpcd -qLB -t 0 -C wpa_supplicant -C timezone -C hostname wlan0
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D nl80211,wext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
I can change the wlan or add new ones via wpa_cli/wpa_gui.
--
Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...il.com> http://chneukirchen.org
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