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robodonut

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Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 10

[solved] netcfg2 automatic network detection

I had set up automatic network detection a while ago, following the directions in this page of the Arch wiki.  After a recent update, the feature stopped working entirely.  This is the output of the startup script:

[root@tomato][/etc/network.d][ /etc/rc.d/net-profiles start                ][08-11-03-16:00]
 > Profile "auto-wireless" does not exist 
 > Profile "wlan0" does not exist

However, if I run "netcfg-auto-wireless wlan0" manually, it finds the network and connects without problems.

In addition, I'd like to have net-profiles autodetect my wired network, which uses WPA supplicant for authentication.  I already have a working WPA config and network profile.  Is there anything I need to add to my /etc/rc.conf?

Last edited by robodonut (2008-11-04 13:12:16)

nickoljt

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Registered: 2008-09-17

Posts: 9

Re: [solved] netcfg2 automatic network detection

See: http://www.archlinux.org/news/410/ for recent changes to netcfg. Basically wireless support was broken out of net-profiles into net-auto. The notice and wiki link within has the details.

robodonut

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Registered: 2008-07-17

Posts: 10

Re: [solved] netcfg2 automatic network detection

That worked.  Thanks.