Wpa-gui Backported To Sharprom Options

[enodr]

I have been looking for this one for ages, so I did it myself! It's really a pain to backport QT3 apps to QPE but when it works it's so cool (took me the afternoon...).

So here it is, the first real GUI for easy Wifi under Sharprom!



I still need to make a few tweakings so that everything fits on a the Zaurus display, then I'll post the file.

[harvell]

I noticed the cacko rom had wpa_supplicant preloaded with the rom. However it's not in "/var/run/wpa_supplicant". It's in /home/root/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant

Should I link it? Sorry if it sounds dumb sometimes the newb in me comes out.

[enodr]

I noticed the cacko rom had wpa_supplicant preloaded with the rom.  However it's not in "/var/run/wpa_supplicant".  It's in /home/root/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant

Should I link it? Sorry if it sounds dumb sometimes the newb in me comes out.

/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ is a directory created when you launch wpa_supplicant. In this directory there is one socket for each Wifi card (eg wlan0). So no do not link anything here. Just:
- create a blank /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file (sudo mv /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.sample && touch /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf)
- launch wpa_supplicant (wpa_supplicant -Dhostap -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -
- you can optionally create a script to launch wpa_supplicant at startup (put in /etc/rc.d/init.d and link to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/)
- launch wpa-gui
- Enjoy!

PS: I noticed that dhcpcd would not give me a new IP address when connecting with wpa-gui unless I had disabled and enabled the wifi card before. Sending a dhcpcd -N should do this, but it's not working. Maybe I overlooked some easy step here.

[harvell]

I noticed the cacko rom had wpa_supplicant preloaded with the rom.  However it's not in "/var/run/wpa_supplicant".  It's in /home/root/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant

Should I link it? Sorry if it sounds dumb sometimes the newb in me comes out.

/var/run/wpa_supplicant/ is a directory created when you launch wpa_supplicant. In this directory there is one socket for each Wifi card (eg wlan0). So no do not link anything here. Just:
- create a blank /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file (sudo mv /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.sample && touch /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf)
- launch wpa_supplicant (wpa_supplicant -Dhostap -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -
- you can optionally create a script to launch wpa_supplicant at startup (put in /etc/rc.d/init.d and link to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/)
- launch wpa-gui
- Enjoy!

PS: I noticed that dhcpcd would not give me a new IP address when connecting with wpa-gui unless I had disabled and enabled the wifi card before. Sending a dhcpcd -N should do this, but it's not working. Maybe I overlooked some easy step here.

Thanks for the help so far. I also appreciate your new Sharp feed.

I noticed that in cacko the wpa_supplicant version is at 0.3.8. It was giving me problems when with the wpa_supplicant.conf file when I tried to start it.

CODE

$ sudo wpa_supplicant -Dhostap -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0
wpa_supplicant v0.3.8
Copyright © 2003-2005, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi> and contributors

This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.

Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)

usage:
 wpa_supplicant [-BddehLqqvw] -i<ifname> -c<config file> [-D<driver>] \
     [-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> [-D<driver>] ...]

drivers:
 hostap = Host AP driver (Intersil Prism2/2.5/3)
 wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
options:
 -B = run daemon in the background
 -d = increase debugging verbosity (-dd even more)
 -K = include keys (passwords, etc.) in debug output
 -t = include timestamp in debug messages
 -h = show this help text
 -L = show license (GPL and BSD)
 -q = decrease debugging verbosity (-qq even less)
 -v = show version
 -w = wait for interface to be added, if needed
 -N = start describing new interface

No networks (SSID) configured.

So I noticed in your feed that you compiled a newer version of wpa_supplicant of 0.4.9. When I tried to start it I got this

CODE

$ sudo /home/root/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -D hostap -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: No such device
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: No such device
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No such device
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No such device
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No such device
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No such device
Failed to set encryption.
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: No such device
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: No such device
l2_packet_receive - recvfrom: Network is down
ioctl[SIOCSIWSCAN]: No such device
Failed to initiate AP scan.
ioctl[SIOCGIWSCAN]: No such device

Could this be from having the older version that's built into the Cacko ROM? Or am I just a knuckle head that's missing something obvious. When this process is running it does not create anything in /var/run/ .

Thanks in advance for the help