Hello, I am now trying netcfg for managing network connections, however I encountered some problems, and I didn't find the solution in the manual or the ArchWiki. So I wonder whether a complete documentation is available. The two problems I encountered are: 1. Ad-Hoc wireless lost ESSID. I used this (working) script to connect:
#!/bin/bash NET_ESSID="ssid" NET_KEY="passwd" NET_GATEWAY="192.168.0.1" NET_MYIP="192.168.0.3" iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc ifconfig wlan0 up iwconfig wlan0 essid $NET_ESSID key "s:$NET_KEY" channel auto ifconfig wlan0 $NET_MYIP route add default gw $NET_GATEWAY
I tried to do the same with netcfg. Here is the profile:
CONNECTION='wireless' DESCRIPTION='Wi-Fi at home' PRE_UP="ip link set wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc" INTERFACE='wlan0' SECURITY='wep' ESSID='ssid' KEY='s:passwd' IP='static' ADDR='192.168.0.2' # Please ignore this difference, I'm sure it's unused GATEWAY='192.168.0.1' DNS=('8.8.8.8') # Uncomment this if your ssid is hidden #HIDDEN=yes
However, I cannot connect it. I've configured my conky to monitor network connections, from what it showed, the ESSID is associated first, then lost after a few seconds. 2. PPPOE won't start by itself. Here's the simple profile: CONNECTION='ppp' INTERFACE='eth0' PEER='provider' PPP_TIMEOUT=10 When I run `sudo netcfg ppp`, it just got stuck there. Then I opened another terminal, and ping some IP, then it got connected. Thank you. These two problems have been bothering me for a week. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591