Ubuntu Dapper on Dell D610C (xubuntu)
Pretty much all worked out of the box, except the wireless.
Setting up the internal wireless card with WPA
I found good informations here:
http://www.sirlab.de/linux/debian_dell_d610.htmlBasically the drivers are already there (ipw2200).
Run wpapassphrase
wpapassphrase [your_ssid] [your keyphrase]
This will give you a "network" block to use in your configkeyphrase]
Create the config:
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
# network block you got from wpapassphrase
network={
ssid="xyz"
#psk="mypassphrase"
psk=111111112222222222333333334444444
}
vi /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp pre-up /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant start post-down /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant stop
Since the init.d script is not provided with xubuntu (or at least i did not get one), i created one:
vi /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant
#!/bin/sh
ENABLE=1
DRIVER=wext
INTERFACE=eth1
CONFIG=/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
OPTIONS="-w -i ${INTERFACE} -D ${DRIVER} -c ${CONFIG}"
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
start) log_begin_msg "Starting wpasupplicant..."
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/wpa.pid --name wpa --startas /sbin/wpa_supplicant -- $OPTIONS &
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop) log_begin_msg "Stopping wpasupplicant"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/wpa.pid --name wpa
log_end_msg $?
;;
esac
exit 0
Then you can (re)start the network
ifdown eth1 ifup eth1
Setting up whereami
I use my laptop at home(wireless, dhcp) and at work (wired, no dhcp).
By using whereami the laptop can automatically pick the right network for me at boot etc ...
Sadly whereami documentation is pretty poor, but here is my working setup.
My setup is for 4 different "locations", wired at work static address, wireless dhcp at home, wired dhcp(ie: dhcp at home), wireless dhcp (ie: at starbucks).
First we install whereami
apt-get install whereami
Here are my files:
/etc/whereami/detect
set DEBUGWHEREAMI 0 # defaults to lan dhcp default wired_dhcp #eth0 means whe are on the LAN testmii eth0 lan if lan # testing if we are on the work lan testping 10.10.1.190 work # if we get here, we are not at work, so we will try wired DHCP at wired_dhcp else # check if wireless card avail (here we have an ipw2100 card) always modprobe ipw2100 w_eth1 fi if w_eth1 # ok, we have a wireless card, testing if there is an Access Point avail. testap scan wireless_dhcp fi if wireless_dhcp #Ok, we found an access point, is it my Home access point ? testssid myssid home fi if home # if we are at home, we want to use the home settings, so unset wireless_dhcp notat wireless_dhcp fi
/etc/whereami/whereami.conf
# set interfaces up/down +lan ifconfig eth0 up +lan ifconfig eth1 down -lan ifconfig eth1 up -lan ifconfig eth0 down =shutdown ifconfig eth0 down =shutdown ifconfig eth1 down # At home =home cp /etc/whereami/interfaces.home /etc/network/interfaces # At work =work cp /etc/whereami/interfaces.work /etc/network/interfaces # at work it's not dhcp, so set the resolv.conf =work cp /etc/whereami/resolv.work /etc/resolv.conf # Wireless dhcp (we will try the access point found) =wireless_dhcp cp /etc/whereami/interfaces.wireless_dhcp /etc/network/interfaces # Wired dhcp try (if logged on lan but not at work, try dhcp) =wired_dhcp cp /etc/whereami/interfaces.wired_dhcp /etc/network/interfaces
/etc/whereami/interfaces.home
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp pre-up /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant start post-down /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant stop
/etc/whereami/interfaces.work
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.10.1.188 netmask 255.255.0.0 gateway 10.10.1.190
/etc/whereami/interfaces.wireless_dhcp
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp
/etc/whereami/interfaces.wired_dhcp
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
/etc/whereami/resolv.work
domain mycompany.com nameserver 439.429.415.43
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