some improvements for wlan-boot (recognition of wlan interface and essid settings)

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/boot-env/preboot/uclib-rootfs/init b/boot-env/preboot/uclib-rootfs/init
index f240d65d..ab2f9ca0 100755
--- a/boot-env/preboot/uclib-rootfs/init
+++ b/boot-env/preboot/uclib-rootfs/init
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 fetchip () {
 # we expect to get an ip address within 10++ seconds
-( sleep 6 ; killall udhcpc >/dev/null 2>&1 ) &
+( sleep 10 ; killall udhcpc >/dev/null 2>&1 ) &
 for i in 1 2 ; do
   udhcpc -f -n -q $vci -s /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script -i $nwif 2>/dev/null
   if grep "ip=" /tmp/ipstuff >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
@@ -141,6 +141,25 @@ fi
 if [ -n "${SSID}" ] ; then
   # WLAN setup will most probably change the network interface name stored in
   # nwif (to wlan0 or something like that)
+  [ $DEBUGLEVEL -gt 0 ] && echo "set essid to ${essid}";
+  #value of essid unchecked yet
+  # load network adaptor modules
+  cd /lib/modules/$(ls /lib/modules/)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
+  for mod in $(find . | grep .ko | sed 's,.*/\([^/]*\).ko,\1',); do
+    echo "Mod:";
+    echo $mod;
+    modprobe $mod || echo "module $mod did not load for some reason"
+    usleep 10000 
+  done
+  cd /
+  wlanif=$(iwconfig 2>/dev/null|sed -n "/ESSID:/p"|sed "s/    .*//")
+  [ $DEBUGLEVEL -gt 0 ] && echo "wlancard recognized as ${wlanif}";
+  ip link set dev ${wlanif} up
+  if iwconfig ${wlanif} mode managed essid "${essid}"; then
+    nwif=${wlanif}
+  else
+    error "  Unable to configure the WLAN interface."
+  fi 
   :
 else
   # check here for the active Ethernet link