On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Mike Looijmans <mike.looijm...@topic.nl> wrote: > > I was wondering if there were better ways than handcrafting shell scripts to > do this on a headless embedded board? > > > > If I put wpa-conf into /etc/network/interfaces it works, but blocks booting > for a long time if the wifi isn't there. > > > I've been using ifplugd combined with wired ethernet, and this also works > fine with wireless. Once wpa-supplicant connects to an access point, the > link reports up and DCHP can start. > > > Starting wpa_supplicant from the commandline runs fine: > > /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid -i wlan0 -c > /etc/wpa_topic.conf -D > > However, putting this line into a startup script (/etc/rc5.d/...) hangs. It > doesn't matter whether I start early or late, the wpa_supplicant just hangs > and waits and doesn't fork into daemon mode like it should. Tried setting > PATH and redirecting input, invoking through start-stop-daemon, but that > didn't help. > > Appending an ampersand to the command makes the boot continue, but > wpa_supplicant doesn't work, it won't connect to the access point.
my 2 cents.. after going back and forth for some time, I am now always using network-manager.. it has very handy command line utilities (nmcli and nmtui) and is well integrated with systemd. that happens to work well for me. i want to believe that connman can do the same thing, but i have never tried it much.. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
