Greetings, I have a board with onboard WiFi available through the SDIO slot. I've got the appropriate Kernel driver made available within Android 1.6 and through numerous searches have figured out what I need to do to get wpa_supplicant to come up and stay up. I can now goto the Android Network control settings area, turn on WiFi and can get a list of wireless AP's in my area. The piece that seems to be eluding me is DHCP. I get a message of "init: no service 'dhcpcd'" on the screen while Android is trying to obtain an address and it eventually times out and gives up..
I've also got a regular Ethernet port on this device and in my init.rc file, I'm running ethmonitor on that device and when I plug in a RJ45 cable, I immediately get the DHCP functionality to occur and an IP address to be assigned to me.. I have, however, tried to manually start /system/bin/dhcpcd on my WiFi device of wlan0 and that seems to kick start the DHCP process and it does get an address, but once added, the WiFi device removes that address.. What are the correct steps in getting the IP address assigned through DHCP to my WiFi interface?? Regards -- Ashwin -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
