wifi connection in recovery mode

Asked by Giacomo Mazzocato

(Ubuntu 9.10) If I boot in recovery mode I can't get my wireless connection, which works well when using network manager.
I'm using wep authentication. If I stop network manager when on gnome and use this /etc/network/interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wireless-key ********
wireless-essid dlink_tosca
auto wlan0
a than do a /etc/init.d/networking restart
it works (without using wpa_supplicant as I can see by /var/log/syslog)

but if I do the same while on recovering mode it doesn't ,and this is what I see in /var/log/syslog:
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.537312] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.539484] wlan0: direct probe to AP 02:1e:58:41:db:da try 1
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.543960] wlan0 direct probe responded
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.543965] wlan0: authenticate with AP 02:1e:58:41:db:da
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.556999] wlan0: authenticated
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.557003] wlan0: associate with AP 02:1e:58:41:db:da
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.570881] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 02:1e:58:41:db:da (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1)
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop wpa_supplicant[866]: No network configuration found for the current AP
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop wpa_supplicant[866]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED - Disconnect event - remove keys
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.570885] wlan0: associated
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.571790] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
Dec 6 19:18:08 pako-desktop kernel: [ 159.572240] wlan0: disassociating by local choice (reason=3)

it seems that iwconfig sets the wlan0 interface correctly but wpa_supplicant doesn't like it
is there a way to disable wpa_supplicant in recovery mode (when in gnome it doesn't bother disconnect)
I have tried to remove the wpa_supplicant ifupdown.sh links in /etc/network/*.d but it doesn't work

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Rohan Kapoor (rohankapoor) said :
#1

From what I have found, I don't believe recovery mode loads the restricted drivers as my wifi card suffers the same problem. I believe this is normal behavior.

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Giacomo Mazzocato (gmazzocato) said :
#2

but it must be possible to get network support in recovery mode, what happens if I need to reinstall a package (that happened to me). Perhaps do i have to load some kernel module ? it seems strange to me

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Rohan Kapoor (rohankapoor) said :
#3

I agree it is rather odd. It just seems that restricted drivers are the ones not loaded. My ethernet drivers load fine but the wifi ones don't

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Giacomo Mazzocato (gmazzocato) said :
#4

I have found a workaround (stop networkmanager).
when in recovery mode at the console prompt type:
service network-manager stop
uncomment the parts regarding wlan0 int /etc/network/interfaces , in my case uncomment the following lines :

#iface wlan0 inet dhcp

#wireless-key ********
#wireless-essid dlink_tosca

#auto wlan0
than type
/etc/init.d/networking restart
and the network is up!
when you have finished recomment those lines and type
service network-manager start

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Rohan Kapoor (rohankapoor) said :
#5

Glad that you were able to solve your problem. Please close this question now.

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Giacomo Mazzocato (gmazzocato) said :
#6

ok