WPS Wifi on Kubuntu - auto start
I have installed kubunto on an old laptop - I have two wifi networks and neither are useable from network manager - on is 64bit the other is WPS.
I have setup a wpa_supplicant config that works for the WPS network - except not automatically doing DHCP.
I have tried multiple ways of disabling network manager and auto running the wpa_supplicant and dhclient - but while they work from the command line, I cannot get them to autorun on startup.
I tried local.rc, a systemd start up service etc and other ways -- this was all from online instructions, I am not familiar enough with linux to know this myself.
What is the recommended way to go?
As thing stand I have...
/etc/systemd/system/wpa.service
[Unit]
Description=WPA Supplicant Startup
[Service]
Type=idle
ExecStart=/usr/local/opt/wpastart.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target/user/local/opt/wpastart.sh (with execute set)
#!/bin/sh
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlp2s0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlp2s0/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
update_config=1
network={ ssid="TNCAPEB1961" psk=<a long key I probably shouldn't post...> proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP auth_alg=OPEN pbss=2
}/etc/network/interfaces
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo allow-hotplug wlp2s0 iface lo inet loopback iface wlp2s0 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf iface default inet dhcpFrom the command line I have disabled network.manager and enabled wpa (myservice) -- when I boot the wifi is not running - but if I execute /user/local/opt/wpastart.sh it comes up fine (but with two warnings of:
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Ideally I'd like:-
- The DHCP to get done automatically
- The warnings to go
- The network to startup on boot, not needing to be kicked off from the command line.
I am very surprised this hasn't been asked before(!) -- actually rather surprised the basic kubuntu install doesn't do WPS out of the box!
1 Answer
Most of what is in the question is unnecessary.
Most of the answer for setting up wifi is given in here How to connect to Wi-Fi AP through WPS?
But the main issues is that ifsupdown must be installed, and isn't installed by default.
sudo apt-get install ifsupdownWith this setup the apt-services stuff setup as per the quesiton is redundant (and doesn't work anyway).
In my specific case (the original question) with a tip from @ I ended up manually installing ifupdown, and trying to start the wifi, it reported that my /etc/network/interfaces file has an error and the 'roam' line is not compatible with DHCP and has to be static.
I changed my network file to read:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo allow-hotplug wlp2s0 iface lo inet loopback iface wlp2s0 inet static wpa-driver wext wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf iface default inet dhcpI disabled my wpa service stuff (the .service and .sh files) and it all works fine.
It boots up and the wifi is active with an IP address.
