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dCore Import Debian Packages to Mountable SCE extensions => dCore X86 => Topic started by: sbaguz on August 22, 2016, 06:29:43 AM

Title: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: sbaguz on August 22, 2016, 06:29:43 AM

Hi,

this morning I made a sce-update -snar.
Everything went fine... apparently.
Now I can't connect anymore with sudo wifi.sh or its menu link: the network is seen as usual, but after trying for long it fails the connection.
I noticed that before checking for the available networks, the script shows an error message saying that /etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv doesn't exist.
What do you suggest?

Thanks

Bye

Title: Re: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: Misalf on August 22, 2016, 07:33:48 AM

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echo wext | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv
or

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echo nl80211 | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv


Title: [SOLVED] Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: sbaguz on August 23, 2016, 07:57:28 AM

Thanks Misalf: it worked!
But I would like to better understand: what happened? And what the command here above did to solve the problem?

 :)

Title: Re: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: Misalf on August 23, 2016, 08:22:22 AM

I guess the startup script for the wifi extension in dCore got somehow messed up due to the update. Jason probably needs to fix it?

From  wifi.tcz.info

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                wpa_supplicant driver is defined by /etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv
                default is wext. Add it to backup if changed.
                Available drivers wext,nl80211

Title: Re: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: sbaguz on August 23, 2016, 08:46:54 AM

Yes, a fix is needed, because I have to use this command again after every reboot...  :(

Title: Re: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: Misalf on August 23, 2016, 09:00:53 AM

Then add  /etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv  to  /opt/.filetool.lst  for now.

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echo "etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv" >> /opt/.filetool.lst
Note: Omitting the leading "/" is intentional.

Title: Re: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: Jason W on August 23, 2016, 09:33:57 AM

Update the wifi package, should be good now.

Title: Re: Wifi connection impossible after sce-update.
Post by: sbaguz on August 24, 2016, 11:38:06 AM

@Misalf:
Yes, I know: I was also thinking about adding echo wext | sudo tee /etc/sysconfig/wifi-wpadrv to bootlocal.sh, but this would haven't been a real solution, not having worked on the cause of the issue...  ;)

@Jason:
Thanks: updating the wireless packages did the trick!