Bug 898977

Summary:	wifi setup during installation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed	Reporter:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Component:	Xfce	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	barry.s13, mt
Version:	Current
Target Milestone:	Current
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE Tumbleweed
URL:	Http://www.SuseThumbleweed.com
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:	100
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Steffen Winterfeldt 2014-09-29 12:10:51 UTC

Using wlan during installation does currently not work. There are several issues (see below).

Generally, you can setup the interface by using the WIRELESS_* ifcfg entries, using a boot option like this:

ifcfg=wlan0=dhcp,WIRELESS_ESSID=mynet,WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE=xxx,...

But this runs into problems:

1) there's no systemd running, so wicked <-> wpa_supplicant communication seems to fail

2) when you start the rescue system, systemd runs, but at least for my test machine (using rt2800) it still fails

Any suggestions? How can we overcome 1)?

Comment 1 Marius Tomaschewski 2014-09-29 12:22:34 UTC

Either just start it as in /usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant.service:

/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log

or provide own dbus activation service definitions to start it on demand
instead to redirect to the SystemdService=wpa_supplicant.service:

/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service

Wicked will trigger a dbus activation here.

Comment 2 Marius Tomaschewski 2014-09-29 12:27:30 UTC

(In reply to Steffen Winterfeldt from comment #0)
> 2) when you start the rescue system, systemd runs, but at least for my test
> machine (using rt2800) it still fails

This is a dup of bnc#893665 and bnc#893678. While our intel wlan hw seems
to work fine in the supported cases, other HW seems to cause problems.

Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2014-09-29 13:33:32 UTC

Thanks! I've solved 1) with latest submissions.

Comment 4 Bernhard Wiedemann 2015-10-27 12:01:09 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (898977) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/341167 Factory / installation-images-openSUSE

Comment 5 Barry Smith 2021-12-26 05:24:03 UTC

When use Unetbultin package and install Thumbleweed I get to config Wifi, I hit edit button and this not give the list of sources in which changes the wifi source (add button).