Bug 198722

Summary:	sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.0_rc6: wpa_supplicant broken vor wired networks, timeouts dysfunctional?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jan Anders <angreifen>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jan Anders 2007-11-10 18:11:25 UTC

My desktop that has to authenticate via 801.X with wpa_supplicant before being allowed to communicate on the switchport. My girlfriend using an older version of baselayout (can't check which one, propably 1.?, hardware crash :() had it working correctly with the following in /etc/conf.d/eth0:

config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_timeout_eth0=60
wpa_supplicant_eth0="-Dwired"

I never got it working with my system, so I decided to upgrade to baselayout 2. But the baselayout network module /lib/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh contains a line
checking for wireless proc entries (_is_wireless || return 0) - which of course fails, since I have only wired network cards. If I comment out that line, it correctly starts wpa_supplicant, but does not finish- it backgrounds the wpa_supplicant process, but never starts the dhcpcd. I tried to understand the script, and I think the timeout parameter is not evaluated at all.
Manually performing these steps work fine, and the parameters used by the script (as shown with --debug) are correct.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure a wired interface in conf.d/net for wpa_supplicant use
2. restart networking on the interface

Actual Results:
# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 --verbose start
* Bringing up interface eth0
* Loaded modules: apipa arping tuntap ccwgroup macchanger macnet wpa_supplicant ssidnet iproute2 pppd system dhcpcd ip6to4
* Configuring eth0 for MAC address 00:16:76:D8:67:8A ... [ ok ]
* Starting wpa_supplicant on eth0 ...
* Detaching to start `/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant' ... [ ok ]
* Starting wpa_cli on eth0 ...
* Detaching to start `/usr/bin/wpa_cli' ... [ ok ]
* Backgrounding ... ...
* WARNING: net.eth0 has started, but is inactive

Expected Results:
After successfully authenticating, the interface module should try to get an dhcp lease.

conf.d/net:
modules="wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_eth0="-Dwired"
wpa_timeout_eth0=30
config_eth0="dhcp"

Comment 1 Ryan Neufeld 2007-11-15 02:59:06 UTC

Please read the new /etc/conf.d/net.example for the new method of configuring your networking services.

Comment 2 Gabriel Devenyi 2008-02-28 20:03:47 UTC

If you're still running baselayout-2, you should look into OpenRC, Roy Marples (the baselayout-2 guy) recently left gentoo but took that project with him.

http://roy.marples.name/openrc

Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-03-31 16:32:12 UTC

Fixed in OpenRC.