dhcpcd-discuss

Re: Wireless interface metric not being set as described in man

Roy Marples

Wed Sep 10 17:52:45 2014

On 2014-09-10 05:35, Joe M wrote:
Hello Roy,

> zcat /proc/config.gz | grep --color --ignore-case wext
> # CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT is not set
>
> Yes, you are correct. I do not have WEXT compiled into the kernel.

I get this issue reported from time to time.
I get bored of it so I bloated dhcpcd by another 600 bytes on Linux so
that we can get the SSID via the shiny nl80211 interface.
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/ci/0bad0685a9eb27ffbf84b7d26b483f3bb0d567a0?sbs=0

If anyone can test it to ensure I've not broken anything, that would be
ace.

Thanks for adding it in. I will test in the next day or two.

Great!

I just added some more fixes for a Gentoo user I had testing it and it seems to be working fine now, but more testers on this would be appreciated.

Roy

References:
Wireless interface metric not being set as described in manJoe M
Re: Wireless interface metric not being set as described in manRoy Marples
Re: Wireless interface metric not being set as described in manJoe M
Re: Wireless interface metric not being set as described in manRoy Marples
Re: Wireless interface metric not being set as described in manJoe M
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