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dunric29a

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Registered: 2005-12-16

Posts: 23

wpa_actiond & net-auto-wireless config ?

Hi,

as documentation of roaming network configuration is rather sparse I'm looking for an advice here.

1. How can I set to use my roaming networks info stored in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ? WPA_CONF option from /etc/network.d/interfaces/wlan0 is ignroed and wpa_supplicant is started with an empty configuration. In other words where does net-auto-wireless look for a configuration ?

2. My wireless card Broadcom BCM4313 requires to be unblocked with rfkill on two devices (phy0 and wireless). May it be done with just netcfg options as RFKILL and RFKILL_NAME is probably parsed only once ? With PRE_UP and POST_DOWN actions ?

Thanks.

David

Šaran

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From: Bosnia

Registered: 2011-09-03

Posts: 407

Re: wpa_actiond & net-auto-wireless config ?

Touching wpa supplicant configuration isn't needed. You just need to set profiles for all networks you want to connect to in /etc/conf.d/netcfg/ (check examples file in that dir). Then you specify wireless interface in /etc/conf.d/netcfg.
Do not set AUTO_PROFILES var if you want all of the profiles to be probed. And that should do it.

I don't think you need to use PRE and POST vars because net-auto should take care of rfkill automaticaly if it's configured in /etc/network.d/interfaces/wlan0 (I believe you have already done that).