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linuxinit

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From: Bumkcuf, Egypt

Registered: 2005-08-21

Posts: 33

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Wifi-radar with dhcpcd

By default, dhcpcd comes with an Arch install. If you install wifi-radar, by default, it won't work. You need to edit /usr/sbin/wifi-radar in the section that checks for the dhcp clients. You need to change the /var/run/dhcpcd to /etc/dhcpc/.

I'm not totally sure why, but this also affects static IP's in some way as well. You will connect to the router, and your routes will appear fine, but it takes about 30 seconds for the second route with your gateway to show up when you run the 'route' command, and you won't be able to ping anything on the outside of your lan.

Once this line is changed, everything works fine. My suggestion is either change the default directory that dhcpcd stores its pid files in, or else add a patch to the wifi-radar package.

I would post a patch, but it's very late here, and I'm confident that somebody else can figure out what I mean.

Cheers!

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Wifi-radar with dhcpcd

Should be fixed in latest