Thanks for good work on the WIFI driver
Helge Hafting
helge.hafting at hist.no
Thu Oct 15 14:10:43 CEST 2009
Christ van Willegen wrote:
> Helge,
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> wrote:
>> Wifi used to be very unstable and quirky, but is much improved now.
> I agree!
>
>> I can now run a script that powers up wifi, loads the kernel
>> driver module, and then runs wpa-supplicant and udhcpc. And it
>> works - everytime!
>
> Could you share this script with us? Or put it on the WIki?
Here is the script. Made so it will work from /etc/init.d/
#!/bin/sh
#Start wireless using wpa_supplicant and udhcpc
#
#Contains a sleep, not meant to be run as a starupt script.
#works great interactively, or from SHR settings
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
case "$1" in
start)
#Get rid of any old daemons:
killall wpa_supplicant
killall udhcpc
echo Power up!
#Power up WIFI, in case it is off
mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced \
/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi \
org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerControl.SetPower 1
#Work around bugs:
echo Reload!
#The driver is borked after suspend, so
#reload it:
#(not sure if this step is still necessary,
#it definitely was before.)
rmmod ar6000 ; modprobe ar6000 ; sleep 2
#Run wpa_supplicant, it will look for known networks
#and associate to one of them. You need your own
#/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
echo Starting wpa_supplicant
wpa_supplicant -i eth0 -Dwext \
-c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf &
#give it a little time (no ifplugd yet)
#My phone needs 12-14 seconds before it associates.
sleep 20
#Attempt dhcp
udhcpc eth0
;;
stop)
killall udhcpc
killall wpa_supplicant
#Save power by turning the interface off
ifconfig eth0 down
rmmod ar6000
#Power down the hardware too:
mdbus -s org.freesmartphone.odeviced \
/org/freesmartphone/Device/PowerControl/WiFi \
org.freesmartphone.Device.PowerControl.SetPower 0
;;
restart)
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/wpa {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
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