Re: Solving the bootup issue

Hi,
ok, while working on another thread, I had an idea today.
The output you posted doesn't contain the line "Probing interface wlan0". This can have to reasons:

1. PROBE_INTERFACE is not set correctly to "yes" (should be done by

sed -i 's|PROBE_INTERFACE="no"|PROBE_INTERFACE="yes"|g' /opt/piratebox/conf/piratebox.conf

without problem)

2. The issues below

That HAVE-TO appear if you enabled the function correctly.

So, I introduce you some changes, and then retest it.

1. Adjust piratebox_alt
edit with "vi" or "nano"

  /opt/piratebox/init.d/piratebox_alt

find the following line:

    fi

    if [ "$PROBE_INTERFACE" = yes ] ; then
      echo "  Probe wlan"

That should be around line 87 -

Please change it to

   if [ "$PROBE_INTERFACE" = "yes" ] ; then

That should create the message "Probe wlan" BEFORE "Starting hostap." when you run

2. But I think in the wifi-setup script is the next bug.
So edit

/opt/piratebox/bin/piratebox_setup_wlan.sh

.

Look around at line 79 , there you should find

  ifconfig $INTERFACE down
elif [ $ = "probe" ] ; then 
   # simply check if the interface is available
   probe
fi

please change it to:

elif [ "$2" = "probe" ] ; then

Test restarting the piratebox

systemctl piratebox restart
systemctl piratebox status
journalctl -xn

See if the messages about probing the interface appear.

Hope that helps.

regards Matthias