Bug 293443 – net-wireless/wpa_supplicant does not work with new network script

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description William Hubbs 2009-11-16 23:27:13 UTC]

I am using the new network script in openrc-0.5.2.  It allows configuration of
wireless settings using iwconfig but recommends using wpa_supplicant.

I found that wpa_supplicant does not provide an init script, which it needs to
do to be used with the network script.

openrc upstream has an init.d script for wpa_supplicant  in their git
repository, but it is not installed automatically since it needs to be
modified by each distribution.

I have modified it to work correctly here, and I am attaching the modified
script to this bug.  Is this something we could officially include in our
wpa_supplicant installation?

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2009-11-16 23:28:08 UTC]

Created attachment 210457 [details]
wpa_supplicant

init.d script for wpa_supplicant.

[Comment 2 William Hubbs 2009-11-16 23:31:01 UTC]

This script should not be added to any runlevels unless the user is using
the new network scripts.  The old style network scripts handle this in the
modules, per interface.

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2009-11-17 03:45:00 UTC]

Created attachment 210480 [details]
wpa_supplicant.confd

/etc/conf.d file for my wpa_supplicant init script.

[Comment 4 William Hubbs 2009-11-17 03:51:01 UTC]

Created attachment 210481 [details]
wpa_supplicant.confd

Here is an updated version of the wpa_supplicant file for /etc/conf.d.

[Comment 5 William Hubbs 2009-11-19 17:01:40 UTC]

Fixing the assignee/cc.

Can someone please look into adding this?

Thanks,

William

[Comment 6 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) 2009-11-21 12:05:26 UTC]

Fixed, 0.6.9 now installs the conf.d and init.d files.
Not bumped to 0.6.9, since we are not officially supporting the new network scripts yet, so it won't be of use for alot of people yet.

If so - reemerge 0.6.9 :-)