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donjames
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 Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 1:23 am Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon,
It worked! 
I turned off net.eth0 so that it wouldn't boot on startup.
Rebooted the Pi.
Typed "dhcped wlan0" on the command line, without the quotes.
Now, the wlan0 interface is up and I can ping to a public ip address.
Next question:
How do I get wlan0 to start up on boot?
Thanks,
Don James
| NeddySeagoon wrote: | donjames,
That looks OKish.
Having two interfaces in the same subnet is a bad thing.
The output of route will be interesting.
Save it before you follow the rest of this post.
For testing, edit /etc/rc.conf and set | Code: | | rc_depend_strict="NO" |
Read the comment and understand what it does.
You will need to uncomment it.
Stop eth0 and I would expect WiFi to work.
Any one at a time should work. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2020 10:07 am Post subject: |
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donjames,
You missed a lot of your Gentoo introductory education as you skipped the handbook install on the Pi.
There is a example net file at | Code: | | /usr/share/doc/netifrc-<ver>/net.example.bz2 |
That's a good read.
However, you want to set up your Pi2 as a router, so knowing that all the bits work now, you may want to consult the Home Router guide.
The Pi2 has all the I/O you will be using for a router on a single USB2 port. That gives you 440Mbit/sec for all of your network traffic. Will that be adequate for your traffic?
If you must use a Pi, the Pi3 has SDIO Wifi built in and a single USB2 port for everything else.
The Pi4 is better yet. It has SDIO Wifi built in, a real 1Gbit ethernet port and separate USB3 on a single lane PCIe bus, so its limited to 4Gbit/sec.
Depending on what you want to route and how fast. the Pi2 may be good enough.
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NeddySeagoon
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donjames
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| Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon,
I finally got the wireless to work reliably.
File: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
| Code: | network={
ssid="livingroom"
psk="abcdeabcde"
# The higher the priority the sooner we are matched
priority=5
}
network={
ssid="etscom"
psk="abcdeabcde"
priority=4
}
network={
ssid="RB411AR"
psk="abcdeabcde"
priority=3
} |
######## end of file ###########
In the file: /etc/conf.d/wpa_supplicant:
conf.d file for wpa_supplicant
| Code: | # uncomment this if wpa_supplicant starts up before your network interface
# is ready and it causes problems
rc_want="dev-settle"
# Please check man 8 wpa_supplicant for more information about the options
# wpa_supplicant accepts.
#
wpa_supplicant_args="-B -M -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf"
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######### end ##########
In the file: /etc/conf.d/net:
| Code: | config_eth0="192.168.1.94/24"
routes_eth0="default via 192.168.1.1"
dns_servers_eth0="192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8"
config_eth1="192.168.1.95/24"
routes_eth1="default via 192.168.1.1"
dns_servers_eth1="192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8"
config_wlan0="192.168.1.97/24"
routes_wlan0="default via 192.168.1.1"
dns_servers="192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8"
modules="wpa_supplicant"
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############# end ############
Runlevels:
ls -al /etc/runlevels/default:
| Code: | ls -al /etc/runlevels/default
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Apr 6 23:15 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 May 3 19:34 gpm -> /etc/init.d/gpm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 6 23:14 local -> /etc/init.d/local
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 6 23:14 netmount -> /etc/init.d/netmount
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 May 4 23:24 ntp-client -> /etc/init.d/ntp-client
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 3 20:37 sshd -> /etc/init.d/sshd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 3 20:26 sysklogd -> /etc/init.d/sysklogd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Dec 31 1969 wpa_supplicant -> /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant
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Thank you very much for all of the help.
Next thing to do is get the router to working. I have made a home router with a pc running Linux, so I am somewhat familiar with the procedure.
I think the Pi2 will be fast enough for me. My internet connection is 100mbits, and I am not running any kind of public server.
Regards,
donjames
| NeddySeagoon wrote: | donjames,
You missed a lot of your Gentoo introductory education as you skipped the handbook install on the Pi.
There is a example net file at | Code: | | /usr/share/doc/netifrc-<ver>/net.example.bz2 |
That's a good read.
However, you want to set up your Pi2 as a router, so knowing that all the bits work now, you may want to consult the Home Router guide.
The Pi2 has all the I/O you will be using for a router on a single USB2 port. That gives you 440Mbit/sec for all of your network traffic. Will that be adequate for your traffic?
If you must use a Pi, the Pi3 has SDIO Wifi built in and a single USB2 port for everything else.
The Pi4 is better yet. It has SDIO Wifi built in, a real 1Gbit ethernet port and separate USB3 on a single lane PCIe bus, so its limited to 4Gbit/sec.
Depending on what you want to route and how fast. the Pi2 may be good enough. |
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