Bug 898977 - wifi setup during installation
Summary: wifi setup during installation
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Xfce (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: x86-64 openSUSE Tumbleweed
: P4 - Low : Minor (vote)
Target Milestone: Current
Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: E-mail List
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Reported: 2014-09-29 12:10 UTC by Steffen Winterfeldt
Modified: 2021-12-26 05:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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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).