Wifi instructions

[Julian Foad]

What's the state of UBOS's support for connecting to a WPA-secured wireless network?

I'm trying to install UBOS on a boot stick in a spare laptop. The laptop's Ethernet port is broken so can only connect by wireless. My home wifi network uses WPA encryption. UBOS networking.html says "UBOS can be run on many different hardware configurations. ... It may or may not have a WiFi antenna ... Unlike other network management tools, UBOS network configurations manage all necessary layers of the networking stack". But on installation, there is no obvious way to make the wireless interface connect to the access point, and no further UBOS instructions that I could find.

Using the Arch Linux instructions
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant

I have come up with this, so far:

• know or find the name of the wireless interface; call it <interface>
  (e.g. by looking at the output of "ip addr")
  

• know or find the name (SSID) of the wireless network; call it MYSSID

• generate a config file containing the authentication credentials:
  
  wpa_passphrase MYSSID | grep -v "#psk=" > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant-<interface>.conf
  
  and type in the passphrase
  

• start the supplicant, for future boots and right now:
  
  systemctl enable wpa_supplicant@<interface>
  systemctl start wpa_supplicant@<interface>
  

Is this something that we should document?

Is there meant to be a better way?

[Johannes Ernst]

Did you come across this blog post?

http://ubos.net/blog/2016/08/18/wifi.html

Note this only works with some wifi chipsets. This is the biggest obstacle to “productize” IMHO. (If you have ideas … )

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[Julian Foad]

On 22/11/16, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> Did you come across this blog post?
>
> http://ubos.net/blog/2016/08/18/wifi.html

No, I hadn't found that. It's similar to what I did, and I have now
configured the "regulatory domain" on my system as you suggest there.

> Note this only works with some wifi chipsets. This is the biggest
> obstacle to “productize” IMHO. (If you have ideas … )

For a start, it might help others if you put a link to that post at the
top of the "networking" document.

- Julian

[Julian Foad]

Julian Foad wrote:

> http://ubos.net/blog/2016/08/18/wifi.html
> [...] (If you have ideas … )

For a start, it might help others if you put a link to that post at the
top of the "networking" document.

Pull request to do so: https://github.com/uboslinux/ubos-docs/pull/51

- Julian
 

[Johannes Ernst]

On Nov 30, 2016, at 8:33, Julian Foad <jul...@foad.me.uk> wrote:

Pull request to do so: https://github.com/uboslinux/ubos-docs/pull/51

Merged. Will be public next time I push the site out.

Thank you!

Johannes.