wpa_supplicant and ifplugd

Enlighter · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject: wpa_supplicant and ifplugd

Hi,

yesterday I had to reinstall my laptop, because all files were seriously damaged after an power loss. Currentyl I try to reinstall my wlan as it was before (I started /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant and ifplugd to get an automatic (re-)connect). But now /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant is gone but I don't want to use /etc/conf.d/wireless, because I'm loosing the feature to automatically connect to any wlan I want to (especially the wpa encrypted ones).

Before this accidend happent it was like this:
* wpa_supplicant found a known essid and associated with it
* ifplugd detected the association and started the network device

today, using /etc/conf.d/wireless it works like this (correct me if I'm wrong):
* /etc/init.d/net.eth0 starts wpa_supplicant on eth0 and runs dhcpcd on eth0.
* If i disable my wlan or iif I reconnect or connect to another AP nobody detects this so I have to manually restart /etc/init.d/eth0

I want my old behavour back, but how? Do I understand /etc/conf.d/wireless right? Is there another way to achiev my gold than using the old (and not anymore existing) /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant script?

Thanx for the help!

Bye, Michael

UberLord · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject:

Use baselayout-1.12.0_pre16 - wpa_supplicant can restart net.eth0 giving you that ability
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Enlighter · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:34 pm Post subject:

Hi,

thanx for your answer! Do you mean the pre- and postassociate functions in /etc/conf.d/wireless? I don't know how wpa_supplicant can do this directly.

bye,
Michael

UberLord · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:48 pm Post subject:

No

It should be automatic - you just have to do something like this

paramthegreat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 78

i have been struggling with this for the past one week. i have a wired interface eth0 and wireless interface via pcmcia card wlan0. i have hotplug daemon controlling detecting the presence of the card. i am using wpa_supplicant to authenticate my wireless connection. but i have been needing to manually start net.wlan0 to get a dhcp ip. my net.wlan0 is linked to net.lo.

now is there a way i can use ifplugd or anything else such that, when i have a cable connected to my ethernet jack, eth0 comes up and when i put in my wireless card wlan0 gets started. currently ifplugd is assigning ip when eth0 comes up but not when wlan0 should come up. my /etc/conf.d/net looks like your code below.