Wifi mostly solved

For my purposes, it's solved. But if you use WEP or no wifi security, there would need to be changes.

I posted this at mini-modding, but I'm replicating it here as well:

In the /tmp/hddmedia/wpa.conf file I have the following (replaced 'thessid' with the SSID used, and 'thepassphrase' with the passphrase used:
wpa.conf

ctrl_interface=/tmp/net/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=root

network={
ssid="myssid"
proto=WPA RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP CCMP
group=TKIP CCMP
psk="thepassphrase"
}

since the interface is at /tmp/net I have to create the directory. And since the file is stored on the 4th partition, I also needed to mount that. Also, I wanted to make sure the wired LAN was also recognized if present. So here's what is at the beginning of my /usr/local/etc/rcS file:
/usr/local/etc/rcS

mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1
ln -s /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1 /tmp/hddmedia
mkdir /tmp/net

echo 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' > /etc/resolv.conf
udhcpc -p /var/lock/udhcpc_eth0.pid -t 15 -b -s /etc/udhcpc.script -i eth0

modprobe ehci-hcd
modprobe ohci-hcd
sleep 2
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myssid"
wpa_supplicant -P/var/lock/wpa_supplicant.pid -D ipw -c /tmp/hddmedia/wpa.conf -i wlan0 -B
udhcpc -p /var/lock/udhcpc_wlan0.pid -t 15 -b -s /etc/udhcpc.script -i wlan0

The second udhcpc takes about 30 seconds to run, and then it still doesn't start responding to pings until after another minute has passed.

Now I'm sure there's going to be a better way to do what I've listed above. Like do we really need to have udhcpc staying as a running process after it has assigned the IP address? I don't know. But this is a starting point that works at least.

There is a script already on the ScreenPlay in the /etc directory called udhcpc.script. It's already there, but for reference here is the listing:
/etc/udhcpc.script

#!/bin/sh
# udhcpc script edited by Jason Lee

[ -z "$1" ] && echo "Error: should be called from udhcpc" && exit 1
RESOLV_CONF="/etc/resolv.conf"
DHCP_OK="/var/lock/dhcp.ok"
DHCP_OK2="/var/lock/dhcp."
[ -n "$broadcast" ] && BROADCAST="broadcast $broadcast"
[ -n "$subnet" ] && NETMASK="netmask $subnet"

case "$1" in
deconfig)
/sbin/ifconfig $interface 0.0.0.0
;;

renew|bound)
/sbin/ifconfig $interface $ip $BROADCAST $NETMASK

if [ -n "$router" ] ; then
echo "deleting routers"
while route del default gw 0.0.0.0 dev $interface ; do
:
done

for i in $router ; do
route add default gw $i dev $interface
done
fi

echo -n > $RESOLV_CONF
# [ -n "$domain" ] && echo search $domain >> $RESOLV_CONF
[ -n "$domain" ] && echo domain $domain >> $RESOLV_CONF
for i in $dns ; do
echo adding dns $i
echo nameserver $i >> $RESOLV_CONF
done
echo ok > $DHCP_OK
echo ok > $DHCP_OK2$interface
;;
esac

exit 0

RootApp and Wifi

Played around with the RootApp. Noticed that if you run RootApp with a -1 DvdPlayer then it will execute the specified program once, go to sleep after the program exits, then when you turn it back on it will resume and exit the RootApp watchdog program. Also, if you do RootApp -s then it won't execute any program, but will immediately put the player to sleep. When you power on, it wakes up and...reboots. But if you combine them doing -s -1 then when you power back on, it will resume and exit from RootApp.

I've also worked on trying to understand the wifi. When you disable the DvdPlayer from starting up, it doesn't mount the media partition or link the media drive to /tmp/hddmedia. It also doesn't configure the network/netmask and gateway for the wired or wireless connection.

At the beginning of the rcS file in the /usr/local/etc is the instructions for doing the network config, so I just adapted it for mine and added drive mounting and linking.

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.0.0
route add default gw 192.168.0.1
mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1
ln -s /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD1 /tmp/hddmedia

And of course I took out the RootApp DvdPlayer command so that it wouldn't activate the DvdPlayer. This has left two things for me to solve. #1) How to control the blue light. It continues to flash after booting, and the bootscreen stays up. Well, the HelloWorld can take care of the bootscreen, but figuring out what controls that power light has been more difficult. #2) Wifi does not get set up.


First run
/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/script/run_tail
which installs the ehci-hcd and ohci-hcd modules using modprobe.

I think it also needs:
/sbin/modprobe ieee80211-rtl
/sbin/modprobe ieee80211_crypt

I found this info in the Main DvdPlayer as well:
/bin/echo nameserver 127.0.0.1 >> /etc/resolv.conf
ifconfig wlan0 up
wpa_supplicant -P/var/lock/wpa_supplicant.pid -D ipw -c /tmp/net/wpa.conf -i wlan0 -B
wpa_cli -p /tmp/net/wpa_supplicant status > /tmp/net/WPA.STATUS;touch /tmp/net/WPA.OK

The /tmp/net/wpa.conf file is added when DvdPlayer runs, but it looks something like this:

ctrl_interface=/tmp/net/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=root

network={
ssid="MySSId"
proto=WPA RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP CCMP
group=TKIP CCMP
psk="your wifi passphrase"
}


I've extracted information and found a webpage about setting up which has helped.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant

But I'm actually stuck at ifconfig wlan0 up. wlan0 isn't there. The light doesn't come on in the wifi adapter so I think the port needs to activate power or recognize the device or something similar. NetworkSet.cpp (can be found in Conceptronic sources) gives some hints but I haven't understood it yet. Anyway, that's what I'm working on now.