Hi! Some general question + Wifi USB Realtek RTL8191S

[Jocko]

Hi matzi,

Indeed you need to add a sleep command between the bring up command for wlan0 and udhcpc : required time to update the system files.

But I think that 30'' is too big. You believe that it is the right value because udhcpc has a default wait between two attempts :

-A,--tryagain N Wait N seconds after failure (default 20)

So 20''

For example, if you set a sleep of 3" and I assume that the bring-up doesn't yet end to update the system files, udhcpc will fail to get an IP. Then it will wait until 20" to try again.
So 3" + udchcp first try + 20" => ~25"

So increase the sleep time with a small step and I am pretty sure that you get a smaller value than 30"

[matzi]

I did some more trials and indeed the important delay is between lan0 up and udhcpc. If a delay of about 30 sec is used, then udhcpc gets a lease at the very first try. If the delay is shorter it goes to background and connects later. For me I will stick to 30 sec because then I have an actual entry in my log file. And it will take this time to connect anyway .

[matzi]

Hi fvdw and Jocko! Happy new year!
Upgrade to 16.0 on 5big2 went fine. As usual I have to ask for a new driver for the RTL819S wifi dongle...

[fvdw]

Hi Matzi,
sorry for overlooking this
I needed to review my archive. I think I found the right setup for compiling it

Try this one and please let us know if it works

[matzi]

Doesn not rund on first trial. I uploaded the older version 8712u.ko through the web interface under attached devices - usb devices. It gave me an error message but still loaded the driver. How do i remove that version?

[fvdw]

login via ssh, go to the folder /lib/modules/3.14.2 and remove it, or better replace it by the new version as the insert modules script will still have a line to try to load it.
Be sure it has executable rights (chmod 755)
Then reboot

[fvdw]

I tested the module on my 5big2 with the new kernel 3.14.2 and it loaded ok, wlan adapter is up

[matzi]

Mine is not yet running. One thing I found is that my scripts expect simple.script in folder /etc but it was not there in the new 16.0. Do you have a different default location?

[fvdw]

no it is not standard included in the firmware, so you must added in the folder /etc (and make it executable)
I will put it in the 16.1 update

[matzi]

Think I could locate the problem:

wpa_cli says it can not connect to wpa_supplicant. Whne I call wpa_supplicant by putty terminal and then ask wpa_cli for status its all OK. So it seem that it does not execute the call of wpa_supplicant in rcS.

I have it near the end of rcS

/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B



echo "------------------------"
echo "rcS finished"
echo "rcS finished" >> boot.log
echo "------------------------"
echo " list boot.log file"
cat /boot.log

Do you see a reason why it is not executed?