- Add an option to automatically launch a scan when the
signal of the current network is low
- Enable 802.11r (fast access point transition) by default for all
protected networks
I may have finally found a clean solution to the issues[1][2][3] with
the automatic discovery of wireless network interfaces.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/101963
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/23196
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/125917#issuecomment-856000426
Currently the start script fails right away if no interface is available
by the time it's running, possibly leaving the system without network.
This happens when running a little early in the boot. A solution is to
instead wait for at least one interface to appear before scanning the
/sys/class/net/ directory. This is done here by listening for the right
udev events (from the net/wlan subsystem) using the `udevadm monitor`
command and grep to match its output.
This methods guarantees the availability of at least one interface to
wpa_supplicant, but won't add additional interfaces once it has started.
However, if the current interface is lost, say unplugged, the service is
automatically stopped and will be restarted as soon as a one (not
necessarily the same) is detected. It would be possible make this fully
dynamic by running another service that continously listen for udev
events and manages the main wpa_supplicant daemon, but this is probably
overkill.
I tested the following cases:
- one interface, starting at boot, w/o predictable naming scheme
- two interfaces, starting at boot (intel wireless and a usb adapter),
w/o predictable naming scheme
- one interface after the system booted, w/o predictable naming scheme
- two interfaces after the system booted, w/o predictable naming scheme
- unplugging and plugging back the current interface
use it when networkmanager or wpa_supplicant is enabled.
fixes#57053
fixes "Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2"
in dmesg
Note that all kernels on unstable are newer that 4.15, which is required
for this to work.
For a while now it's possible to specify an additional config file in
`wpa_supplicant`[1]. In contrast to the file specified via `-c` this was
supposed to be used for immutable settings and not e.g. additional
networks.
However I'm a little bit unhappy about the fact that one has to choose
between a fully imperative setup and a fully declarative one where the
one would have to write credentials for e.g. WPA2-enterprise networks
into the store.
The primary problem with the current state of `wpa_supplicant` is that
if the `SAVE_CONFIG` command is invoked (e.g. via `wpa_cli`), all known
networks will be written to `/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf` and thus all
declarative networks would get out of sync with the declarative
settings.
To work around this, I had to change the following things:
* The `networking.wireless`-module now uses `-I` for declarative config,
so the user-controlled mode can be used along with the
`networks`-option.
* I added an `ro`-field to the `ssid`-struct in the
`wpa_supplicant`-sources. This will be set to `1` for each network
specified in the config passed via `-I`.
Whenever config is written to the disk, those networks will be
skipped, so changes to declarative networks are only temporary.
[1] https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/commit/wpa_supplicant?id=e6304cad47251e88d073553042f1ea7805a858d1
This reverts commit 8f177612b1.
Attempting to start any service from udev when systemd-udev-settle is
used at all hangs the boot for 2min. See issue #107341.
This resolves issue #101963.
When the service is started and no interface is ready yet, wpa_supplicant
is being exec'd with no `-i` flags, thus failing. Once the interfaces
are ready, the udev rule would fire but wouldn't restart the unit because
it wasn't currently running (see systemctl(1) try-restart).
The solution is to exit (with a clear error message) but always restart
wpa_supplicant when the interfaces are modified.
Ever since setting up bonding the `wpa_supplicant-unit-start` script has
been failing. This is because the file `bonding_masters` in
`/sys/class/net/` is *not* a directory containing `uevent`.
Adding a test to verify the `uevent` path to be sourced exists resolves
the problem.
This commits makes it clearer to a novice reader how to configure several
diferent types of SSID connections that were otherwise obscurely documented
Resolves#66650
Systemd provides some functionality to escape strings that are supposed
to be part of a unit name[1]. This seems to be used for interface names
in `sys-subsystem-net-devices-{interface}.device` and breaks
wpa_supplicant if the wireless interface name has a dash which is
encoded to \x2d.
Such an interface name is rather rare, but used i.e. when configuring
multiple wireless interfaces with `networking.wlanInterfaces`[2] to have on
interface for `wpa_supplicant` and another one for `hostapd`.
[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-escape.html
[2] https://nixos.org/nixos/options.html#networking.wlaninterfaces
This allows the user to add `wpa_supplicant` config options not yet supported by Nix without having to write the entire `wpa_supplicant.conf` file manually.
We now wait for dhcpcd to acquire a lease but dhcpcd is restarted on
system activation. As wpa_supplicant is stopped while dhcpcd is
restarting a significant delay is introduced on systems with wireless
network connections only. This changes the wpa_supplicant service to
also be restarted together with dhcpcd in case both services were
changed.
wpa_supplicant fails to start if the wireless interfaces aren't ready yet,
so we need to add a system ordering directive here to start wpa_supplicant
after the interfaces are ready. Note that Requires= is not enough since
it does not imply ordering.
