[arch-general] netcfg testing and git packages

[Baho Utot]

Atanas Zhelev wrote:
> 2009/2/16 James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org>:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> The release beta cycle wasn't working well for netcfg. Small changes,
>> bugs and many FR's got held up far too long while other work happened.
>> To try and help get netcfg development going smoothly again I've
>> uploaded some netcfg git PKGBUILDs  to the AUR to use instead of -beta
>> releases.
>>
>> This way I can make those small changes, push it to git, and it can be
>> tested immediately, while larger things can be safely done in another
>> branch locally. When it's ready, rc's will be released.
>>
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23953
>> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23954
>>
>> There's some fairly substantial changes in this release.
>>  - Moving from net-tools to iproute
>>     - iproute is the way forward. net-tools is long unmaintained, nor
>> as capable.
>>  - Moving from wireless_tools to pure wpa_supplicant
>>     - More reliable, less quirks required. Hopefully more stable.
>>     - As part of this, wireless moves into netcfg-wireless (dependency issues)
>>
>> Both of these require config changes. Once they're both stabilised I
>> can release 2.2.x to give people time to migrate, and eventually 2.5
>> which will use them by default. There are example configs included.
>>
>> More details on the wiki:
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles_development
>>
>> The wpa_supplicant move needs a significant amount of testing. I
>> havn't tested WEP (testing hardware is gone), and net-auto may not
>> work presently. WPA and custom WPA configs work in my testing.
>>
>> If there's any criticisms or comments about the way this is going, the
>> code, netcfg, etc, please let me know. I'd like to make 2.2 a good
>> release and I think these changes are important. I'm hoping they'll
>> make netcfg simpler and more reliable.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James
>>
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> i just tested netcfg-git. It didn't work. I have broadcom BCM4312 chip
> and i'm using the broadcom-wl driver. netcfg-git failed with
> "- eth1 is not a valid wireless interface."
>
> because of this block in /usr/lib/network/connections/wireless :
>
> if [[ ! -d /sys/class/net/$INTERFACE/phy80211 ]]; then
>         err_append "$INTERFACE is not a valid wireless interface."
>         return 1
>     fi
>
> the wl.ko module doesn't provide phy80211 directory in the sys
> filesystem it seems. Or at least i don't have it. I tried to comment
> the test to see what happens. In this case netcfg just hanged trying
> to bring the connection up. netcfg 2.1.x is working fine.
>
> --
> BRS
> Atanas Zhelev
>   

I have broadcomm wireless cards in my desktop and laptop

You may find some info here that may help

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43