sbRIO-9651, enable wlan0 with MAX

[sirluke]

Hi Jayraj,

how did you configure the /etc/network/interface and wpa_supplicant.conf files?

Do you mind sharing those files?

Thanks

Luca

[jayaraj85]

Hi Luca

Sorry for the late reply. As I am new to RIO devices and to Linux platform, I did refer to some online resources to configure the files, but I think none of them worked out and I ended up using the original one. I am attaching both the files for your reference (I also had to use one .bin file for the usb driver which I downloaded from Linux repository). Let me know if it worked for you as well.

Thanks

Jayaraj

[sirluke]

One little update. running ps I don't see the wpa_supplicant in the processes and also in /var/run/wpa_supplicant I don't see the PID.

ifconfig gives me this output:

admin@NI-sbRIO-9651-030707e8:~# ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:2F:19:42:10

          inet addr:192.168.0.127  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::280:2fff:fe19:4210/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:5966 errors:0 dropped:443 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:1345 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:558602 (545.5 KiB)  TX bytes:344541 (336.4 KiB)

          Interrupt:54 Base address:0xb000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:2F:19:42:11

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

          Interrupt:77 Base address:0xc000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:12736 (12.4 KiB)  TX bytes:12736 (12.4 KiB)

usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:2F:19:42:12

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr E8:4E:06:1C:3B:8B

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[jayaraj85]

Luca

Looking at your ifconfig, this is what I used to get when I started interfacing with usb WiFi. I had also tried setting up an adhoc network using Linux commands, which had worked for me. Were you able to proceed and see the MAX configuration?

Jayaraj

[jayaraj85]

Hi All

A problem that I face is, MAX allows me to configure wifi in DHCP only and the IP (172.16.0.1) and subnet mask (255.240.0.0) that it assigns to it is constant. It is unable to provide IP address to its clients and I have to switch to manual IP assignment based on the subnet mask that is shown in MAX. Is there any solution for this?

Update: I modified functions.common file in /etc/natinst/networking/ to change the subnet mask to commonly used ones, but the IP that the client receives is bogus, unless I configure it manually. I am unaware as to how to configure the networking files for the DHCP to run smoothly. Any idea?

Thanks

Jayaraj

[arya1]

Hi All

I face the same problem as mentioned above. I am able to access the MAX page and select the 'create wireless network' option, but the dhcp server is not able to give IP to my PC which tries to connect to it. Only when my PC is configured for a static IP with the same subnet mask will it get connected to the SOM.

Arya