Hi,
I have installed NethServer on a local server, this server uses a wifi interface (wlan0) to connect to the Internet but once I have installed Nethserver and added the ip / gateway / dns info, I can’t access the WPA information.
I have had a look at the /etc directory and found that there is no wpa_supplicant directory. Also wlan0 needs to be set as the external network (red network interface).
Until I get wlan0 working, this server will not have external / Internet access.
The wifi adapter is an usb RT5370 - Ralink Technology Corp.
I think we never tested wan connection using a wifi interface.
Probably we’re missing some parts of the configuration.
Could you please try following CentOS instructions? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/WpaSupplicant
You’ll need to install wpa_supplicant:
yum install wpa_supplicant
If you report success, we could file an issue and try to implement a new feature.
Seeing that I can’t get this server to connect to the Internet, I am thinking that I will have to download CentOS v6.6 DVD and add it to the repository list or is there a copy of the rpms on the Nethserver disto disk?
After thinking about this, it might be easer to install a minimum CentOS and then install Nethserver.
A bit of a catch-22 situation – Can’t access the Internet due to minimum WPA infrastructure and can’t install the infrastructure due to no way of downloading the software (at least on this server)!
I have just succesfully installed wpa access by mounting the DVD iso and modifing CentOS-Media.repo (then installing wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant and dbus)
Only problem with William Caba’s instructions is that ifcfg.wlan0 does not mention anything about gateways and that the resolve.conf (/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/resolv.conf) need to have a nameserver (either 1st or 2nd DNS) to be pointing to the router / gateway IP.