[Nix-dev] wicd managing wireless network

[Sergey Mironov]

2012/1/2 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric at viric.name>

> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:20:25AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 02:22:41 +0400, Sergey Mironov <ierton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I have successfully set up wpa2 wireless network using wicd, but it
> was not
> > > that easy. The problem is that dhclient doesn't ignore wlan0 interface
> by
> > > default and wicd doesn't take this fact into account correctly. With
> just
> > >
> > >   networking = {
> > >     wicd.enable = true;
> > >     # useDHCP is true by default
> > >   };
> > >
> > > I would get both wicd and dhclient managing wlan0 interface (well, wicd
> > > didn't detect wireless interface originally, that was me who typed
> 'wlan0'
> > > into it's gui settings dialog). The worst thing here is the fact that
> as a
> > > result, wicd logs completly wrong 'bad password' errors. Probably, one
> > > should do something to prevent this situation, maybe one of the
> following:
> > > - prevent (wicd.enable == true && useDHCP == true) condition
> > > - add wireless interfaces like wlan0 to the dhclien's list of ignored
> > > interfaces in /etc/nixos/nixos/modules/services/networking/dhclient.nix
> > > I will be glad to try myself in fixing it. At least, should I add a
> wiki
> > > article describing the problem and solution as is?
> >
> > That would be great!
> >
>
> Remember that nixos can also start the wpa supplicant. :)
>

Yes, one should disable wpa_supplicant (networking.enableWLAN if I rememver
correctly) also - wicd runs it by itself when needed.

Patches for Intel 5150 firmware are in attach. 0001-intel-... is for nixos,
0001-iwlfifi is for nixpkgs.

Sergey
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