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[smthers]

[tasmod]

All,

Ok, only being familiar with basic wireless setup I need some help from knowledgeable wifi users.

To test whether connection was up I was checking for ip_tables as the guide.

Is there some straightforward way to check the wi-fi connection is active and working as well?

I lsmod my own wi-fi and could only find ath5 as a pointer, obviously this would be different for each user, so no real use. i need to check for active wi-fi so Psync can then run in autostart.

[jim3630]

[tasmod]

jim,

Thanks for tip. I only need a simple one liner type, I don't want to install anything else.

I had been using ifconfig this morning to determine the active interfaces.

I started up my old laptop and used Frisbee to get wifi working. That's when I discovered a glitch with this method. ifconfig shows active interfaces but not necessarily connected ones.

Using Frisbee I can turn wifi on and off but this doesn't affect ifconfig.

iwconfig does however show the wifi ESSID when connected and removes it when not, so I'm working on that at the moment in between html etc etc. Too many calls on my time just now.

[tasmod]

smthers,

Try this one, I've tested it on my wired and wireless 'puters. It should distinguish between either.

In the case of wifi, although it tests out OK I added an extra 10 second sleep just to be sure it's up before running Psync autostart.

As before rename by removing .tar.gz and place in /root/Startup

Oh and don't forget to check permissions are set, right click, then properties and ticks should be on exec.

[jim3630]

[tasmod]

Hi Jim,

I went with the ESSID in iwconfig, along with a conditional check for either wired or wireless.

If it doesn't find wi-fi it just runs anyway.

If it finds wi-fi it loops until ESSID active then runs Psync autostart. Although it worked fine on my wi-fi laptop, just to be sure i added a 10 second sleep before psync ran.

[jim3630]

[8-bit]

I do not know if this would help, but a utility I had made called "system information" has a button for Wireless Interfaces that seems to give a lot of information on what it finds for the WIFI interface.
If you do not have it, it can be found here.

It also will list all kernel modules loaded. but it does not give as much detailed information as HardInfo.

[tasmod]

Well 4 people downloaded so far.

Is that to look at my crappy code or is it working for you ?

[jim3630]

[smthers]

[tasmod]

Don't understand that.

When you first boot, X is started then Startup contents are run.

I'll mod the code to write to a file so we can see what's happening.

How are you checking what happens, Psync autostart is silent?

Try this one. After you have installed it, reboot, wait till desktop then about another minute. There should be a text file called robs as /tmp/robs.
See what is in it, beware do not post contents unless you don't mind your ESSID name being shown.

EDIT:
Just run it on both my machines, wired and wireless. Works faultless, I reset clocks 3 minutes slow in each case and at boot it adjusted them.
When it's run there should be a 'settertime' file as well in /tmp. This shows it has run.
After all checks above, run it manually and check the version. Should be 2.7

[smthers]

@tasmod that did the trick. Many thanks!

[tasmod]

Erm, that doesn't compute. All I did was add lines sending text to a file for reporting purposes.

The rest of the code was same as previous, so in effect nothing altered.

Odd!

OK, well I'll add this to Psync v2.8 as it doesn't hurt anything, it should improve Psync autostart for slow wifi startups. For wired it makes no difference.

I'll remove the code lines for file write.