Start A Network Connection From The Command Line, SL-C3100 Options

[BarrySamuels]

C3100 with standard Sharp ROM

Can someone give me the required commands to start a specific wireless network connection from the command line please? I want to set up a script to do it.

[sdjf]

Oooh...that sounds very familiar.

Don't work too hard at it...in about four weeks, after I deal with some other deadlines, I expect to be asking you to test the script I've written that resets the network applet. If it works, you should be able to simply call qreset from your script before each time you go to start a connection.

My concern has been that I only have one tty active, and don't know whether it will work properly for multiple active tty processes. I've tried asking both here and at the trolltech mailing list how to direct the 'stop' to a specific tty or pid, and gotten no answers. From looking at the qtopia docs, it may not be officially possible. I guess it might be possible with a lot of painfully worked out tweaking of the qcop message stack to do it, to ensure that the process you want to stop is at the top.

Can you do the following for me, once with wlan active, and once when you are totally offline :

ps ax | grep tty

You may also wish to look at the page I've written at http://www.sdjf.esmartdesign.com/respawn.html about halting the respawning of ttyS0, although it may not be appropriate for your setup if you need to keep a constant connection going to a local network, like your desktop.

I also do not know which Network ttys are used for what on ROMs other than my own. My CF slot is ttyS3, and the serial i/o port is ttyS0, on my sl5500 with ROM 2.38.

Oh, yeah, I found it was a lot easier to control Network behavior by stopping that respawning, and it also speeded my Zaurus up as well.

sdjf