On 7/4/2017 00:06, tom butz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've enjoyed CRUX 2.8 for quite some time. Now I'm back to CRUX 3.3,
> but the WiFi seems to be a bit harder to set up. I realise that the handbook
> was done a while ago.
>
> I know how it's done in FreeBSD (relatively easy using /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf,
> even when it's WPA2).
>
> What's so special about CRUX 3.3? It supports HFSPLUS (Mac) and UFS (FreeBSD).
> Unfortunately no exFat (but NTFS).
>
> Thanks for any help,
Hi, Tom,
Sorry for the hugely-delayed response, your email came in right before
the old crux.nu server died and we had some challenges to overcome
getting the new one in place before we'd planned to originally. Mailing
lists were the last part of the new build, pretty much.
Anyway, regarding wireless, you'd use wpa_supplicant in CRUX as well.
You could add a wpa_supplicant invocation to /etc/rc.d/net or create a
copy of net called 'wlan' or the like, if you prefer, and run
wpa_supplicant there.
As an example, I added just these two lines to /etc/rc.d/net (at the
beginning of the start case) on a laptop that I only connect via wireless:
/sbin/modprobe b43
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211,wext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
-iwlan0 -B
As for exFAT, the Linux kernel doesn't support it natively. This isn't
crux-specific. You can find a third-party implementation for FUSE here:
https://github.com/relan/exfat
Hope this helps,
Matt
