[shr-u] wifi connection

Arigead captain.deadly at gmail.com
Wed Dec 2 23:56:39 CET 2009


Hello All,
    I was going to try and connect my FR to my laptop with an ad-hoc
wifi connection but being as I've never even connected to infrastructure
I decided that I'd start there. I followed the instructions in the wiki
[1] but got some strange results:

ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
WPA: Configuring Interface
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
udhcpc (v1.13.2) started
run-parts: /etc/udhcpc.d/00avahi-autoipd exited with code 1
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending select for 192.168.1.137...
Sending select for 192.168.1.137...
Lease of 192.168.1.137 obtained, lease time 3600
run-parts: /etc/udhcpc.d/00avahi-autoipd exited with code 1
adding dns 192.168.1.254


root at om-gta02 /media/card $ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:12:CF:8F:37:23
          inet6 addr: fe80::212:cfff:fe8f:3723/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:381 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:353244 (344.9 KiB)  TX bytes:9635 (9.4 KiB)


It appears that I get offered an address by the DHCP server on the wifi
but that it's not being used by eth0 for some reason. Is this a know
issue. To be honest I've never tried to use the wifi part of the phone
before and the wiki might be outdated, even for infrastructure mode?

Cheers for any help that anybody has time to offer.


[1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wifi



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