[Qt Extended] Wifi works, but no DNS

Lorn Potter lpotter at trolltech.com
Wed Oct 29 00:29:25 CET 2008


Jette Derriche wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 19:37 +0100, Jette Derriche wrote:
>> I have configured Wireless LAN, and it seems to work. At least it says
>> "Online" under Settings -> Internet. But initially it says "pending..."
>> and then after a while it says "offline". I go into "properties" and
>> select "Wireless Encryption". I don't change anything.. then press
>> "back", and then it says "Online"...
> 
> Clearly something is not right:
> 
> ~# route -n
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags  Iface
> 192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U      usb0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U      eth0
> 0.0.0.0         192.168.0.200   0.0.0.0         UG     usb0
> 
> (I removed the Metric, Ref and Use columns, since they are all zero)
> 
> Apparently the GUI adds double quotes to the key...
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> # ifup eth0
> sed: unrecognized option `--quiet'
> BusyBox v1.11.1 (2008-08-05 02:00:09 CEST) multi-call binary
> 
> Usage: sed [-efinr] pattern [files...]
> 
> WPA: Configuring Interface
> Line 9: Too long WEP key 0 '"3a9b7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxefad62a'.
> Line 9: failed to parse wep_key0 '"3a9b7xxxxxxxxxxxxxxefad62a'.
> Line 11: failed to parse network block.
> Failed to read or parse configuration
> '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf'.
> wpa_supplicant: /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> The error disappeared when I removed the quotes around the key in
> wpa_supplicant.conf ... 
> 
> This is a bit frustrating:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> root at om-gta02:~# ifup eth0  
> ifup: interface eth0 already configured
> root at om-gta02:~# ifdown eth0
> cat: can't open '/var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid': No such file or directory
> root at om-gta02:~# touch /var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid
> root at om-gta02:~# ifdown eth0
> ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> But aside from that, now I get this:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> root at om-gta02:~# ifup eth0
> sed: unrecognized option `--quiet'
> BusyBox v1.11.1 (2008-08-05 02:00:09 CEST) multi-call binary
> 
> Usage: sed [-efinr] pattern [files...]

some of the ifup scripts that are used in OM do not conform to busyboxes sed, which doesn't have the
'quiet' argument.

> 
> WPA: Configuring Interface
> Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: Connection refused
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Operation not supported
> udhcpc (v1.11.1) started
> Sending discover...
> Sending discover...
> Sending discover...
> No lease, failing
> -----------------------------------


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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Software Engineer, Systems Group, Qt Software, Nokia Pty Ltd





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