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wprater

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Registered: 2012-10-28

Posts: 6

Create an AdHoc network on boot

Seems like a relatively trivial thing to do, but Im having issues getting this up with either systemctl service or netcfg.

netcfg fails because it's trying to connect to a network, but in actuality, it just created the AdHoc network.

DEBUG: wpa_cli -i wlan0 -p /run/wpa_supplicant terminate
 > WPA Authentication/Association Failed

Here is the netcfg config

CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='AdHoc IPv4LL network'
INTERFACE='wlan0'

ESSID='my_ssid'
IP='no' 

ADHOC=1
WPA_DRIVER=wext

IPCFG=('route add -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev wlan0 metric 99' 'route add default dev wlan0 metric 99')

POST_UP='avahi-autoipd -D wlan0'

When trying to use a service file, it fails trying to bring up the interface.  I read in the wiki that it's not recommended to bring up an interface in systemd.

Process: 95 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ip link set wlan0 up (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Ideas on how to get create a AdHoc network with netcfg?  What am I doing wrong?