SHR - Trying to configure phone for a wireless demo...

[Paul Fertser]

John Dowd <jdowdster at gmail.com> writes:
> I can now manually configure the wireless interface but I need to come up 
> automatically during boot and start the dhcp client. I can see that the kernel 
> does boot and somewhere during init the interface is brought up. However, 
> somewhere later during the init the wireless interface is being
> shutdown. 

You certainly want to consult http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/FSO_Resources
wikipage; it's frameworkd syncing resources on startup and thus
turning everything off.

> If I go into the Setup application I can see that the wireless
> option is turned off. If I turn it back on it then the interface
> does come up. However, it is not persistent across boots. How do I
> turn off the current system setting of turning off the wireless
> interface? I have a "wlan" script in the "/etc/init.d" directory and
> once I manually bring up the wireless interface I can run it and it
> does configure the interface properly.

Start your script after frameworkd and use fsoraw accordingly.

> Also, I'm running into the same problem with the busybox udhcpc application 
> that I've seen before. It does not see the DCHPOFFER from the AP. It ignores 
> it and continues to issue the DCHPDISCOVER. There was a application dhclient 
> that ran on the OM2009 distro. Is there anything available here on the 
> unstable SHR?

If dhclient is not in the feeds, i'm sure one of SHR folks (dos1, you
;) ) can add it.

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