Touch Wifi Connection on boot (touch)

[jkgeyti]

Hi.

Is it possible to enable wifi (and connect to a network already stored) in order to run e.g. wget on boot (run.sh)? I am trying to make the touch fetch a new calibre news epub whenever I reboot the device.

[sven]

Hi there,

If you already have a setup and configured network it should be sufficient to run wpa_supplicant by

wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

wpa_supplicant is responsible for managing the wireless connection.

Since I haven't setup my Kobo Touch yet, I am going to briefly describe how I did setup the wireless manually.

1. Load the module for the wifi

# insmod /drivers/freescale/wifi/ar6000.ko

2. Verify that the module is loaded

# lsmod

3. Start wpa_supplicant (as mentioned above)

# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

4. Configure the network via wpa_cli in interactive mode ( A help at the wpa_cli prompt '>' will show you all available commands)

# wpa_cli

4a. Retrieve and show all available networks

> scan 
> scan_results

4b. add a new network. The resulting digit (0 in my case) indicates the new network number for the following commands

> add network
0

4c. set SSID for network

> set_network 0 ssid "Your-Network"

4d. set password phrase

> set_network 0 psk "YourPassphrase"

4e. save the new configuration

> save_config

4f. quit wpa_cli

> quit

5. Set an IP address to wlan0 adapter either static or by dhcp
5a. static IP (example)

# ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.1

5b. dynamic

# udhcpc -i wlan0

6. For hostname to ip resolving the file /etc/resolv.conf is needed. If the file does not exist create the file with a line pointing to your nameserver in it, e.g.

nameserver 192.168.1.1

7. Add a route to kernel routing table to reach external networks

# route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0

After these steps I was able to download from internet with wget command.

To have the wireless available after booting the Kobo Touch I created a script that is called during start up:

/bin/busybox insmod /drivers/freescale/wifi/ar6000.ko > /mnt/onboard/test.log
sleep 4
/bin/busybox lsmod > /mnt/onboard/test.log 
/bin/wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B > /mnt/onboard/test.log
sleep 2
/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.12 > /mnt/onboard/test.log 
sleep 2
/sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0
/sbin/route > /mnt/onboard/test.log

The redirection in the test.log file is just for information purpose. You can omit if everything is working properly.

One issue I discovered is that nickel interferes with my batch script. The output in the log file was as expected, but
when I listed loaded modules and running threads neither the wireless module was loaded nor wpa_supplicant was running.
In dmesg log file an error during wireless module loading was indicated.
Therefore, I decided to comment out nickel in rcS file, since I do not need it anyway.

I hope my description helps you to get your wireless running after boot,

Sven

[ikarus9999]

Originally Posted by sven

Therefore, I decided to comment out nickel in rcS file, since I do not need it anyway.

Thanks for the detailed instructions.
One quick question. Why don't you need 'nickel' on your kobo?

[sven]

I currently try to replace nickel with a java application ( I am not a C++ guy) that at the end of the day hopefully provides some calendar, mail, note taking and, of course, reading (books and news) functionality. Through a simple plug-in mechanism this application shall be extendable with a kind of applets for further functions.

The project is still in prototype stage, but I could provide some pictures in the next few days if you would be interested.

[Zurga]

Sven that is awesome! I for one would love to see some pictures of that.

[ilpestifero]

Very interesting!
Screenshot please

[sven]

Hi.
As promised a few days ago I provide some pictures of my nickel replacing Java application on my Kobo Touch.
The first one is the Home Screen.

The upper part of the screen shows a list of recently read books. The lower part contains icons for several "Applets", e.g. Calendar, News, Mail or Reader.

The Calendar can be displayed in a month, week or day view. One can switch through the different views by tapping on the icons at the right part of the menu bar. With a swipe to the left or to the right one can go a month, a week or a day back or forward.


By a long tap one can create a new event, by a normal tap on an existing event one can modify the details of the event.

The events are stored in a file in XCAL (XML iCal)format. I hope to implement in future a synch mechanism for my thunderbird calendar at home.

The Reading Applet shows the exiting book categories as a tag cloud considering the number of books in a particular category. Currently the category structure is file system based, that means each category is a directory in file system. That makes it easy to manipulate categories and add or remove books.

After a tap on a category, a list of the books in that category is diplayed to select the book to read (I haven´t finished this work yet).

The News Applet displays my favorite online news. A separate application crawls the news webpages and compiles an ePub (without advertisements and pictures).


The Weather Applet is inspired by the great work of KevinShort https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=194376


As it can be seen on the pictures the User Interface is not consistent yet, some menu items are displayed as icons some as text. I am to date not sure what will be the best solution.
Also one can notice a lot of ghosting on the pictures, but this will be fixed in the future. All in all, there is still much room for improvement and a lot of work to be done.

Any feedback is appreciated whether the community might be interested in my replacement of nickel or whether I only develop for my purpose (then I do not have to clean up the code )

[Zurga]

I really love the way it looks, simple, like an e-reader should be. The applications that you developed are just what an e-reader missed in my eyes. I would really like to try this! This makes my e-reader so much more than a reader, it provides information now.

Please start a topic here with your Nickel replacement(Copper :P).

[ryanthejuggler]

This may be a bit off-topic, but I'm having trouble with wpa-supplicant connecting to my university's wireless. It uses WPA-EAP TLS.

Here's my conf file:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
eapol_version=1 
network={
	ssid="WPI-Wireless"
	scan_ssid=0
	key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
	pairwise=CCMP TKIP
	group=CCMP TKIP
	eap=TLS
	mode=0
	auth_alg=OPEN
	identity="Wireless User 12-13"
	anonymous_identity="Wireless User 12-13"
	ca_cert="/home/certs/netops-ca.pem"
	ca_path="/home/certs"
	private_key="/home/certs/Wireless-User.pem"
	client_cert="/home/certs/Wireless-User.pem"
	private_key_passwd="--------"
}

When I try wpa_supplicant, I get the following:

# wpa_supplicant -dd -i wlan0 -c /home/wpa_supplicant.conf 
Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/home/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'default' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A'
Configuration file '/home/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/home/wpa_supplicant.conf'
Reading configuration file '/home/wpa_supplicant.conf'
ctrl_interface='/var/run/wpa_supplicant'
update_config=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1
eapol_version=1
Line: 6 - start of a new network block
ssid - hexdump_ascii(len=12):
     57 50 49 2d 57 69 72 65 6c 65 73 73               WPI-Wireless    
scan_ssid=0 (0x0)
key_mgmt: 0x1
pairwise: 0x18
group: 0x18
eap methods - hexdump(len=16): 00 00 00 00 0d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
mode=0 (0x0)
auth_alg: 0x1
identity - hexdump_ascii(len=19):
     57 69 72 65 6c 65 73 73 20 55 73 65 72 20 31 32   Wireless User 12
     2d 31 33                                          -13             
anonymous_identity - hexdump_ascii(len=19):
     57 69 72 65 6c 65 73 73 20 55 73 65 72 20 31 32   Wireless User 12
     2d 31 33                                          -13             
ca_cert - hexdump_ascii(len=25):
     2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 63 65 72 74 73 2f 6e 65 74 6f   /home/certs/neto
     70 73 2d 63 61 2e 70 65 6d                        ps-ca.pem       
ca_path - hexdump_ascii(len=11):
     2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 63 65 72 74 73                  /home/certs     
private_key - hexdump_ascii(len=29):
     2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 63 65 72 74 73 2f 57 69 72 65   /home/certs/Wire
     6c 65 73 73 2d 55 73 65 72 2e 70 65 6d            less-User.pem   
client_cert - hexdump_ascii(len=29):
     2f 68 6f 6d 65 2f 63 65 72 74 73 2f 57 69 72 65   /home/certs/Wire
     6c 65 73 73 2d 55 73 65 72 2e 70 65 6d            less-User.pem   
private_key_passwd - hexdump_ascii(len=8): [REMOVED]
Priority group 0
   id=0 ssid='WPI-Wireless'
SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=13 enc_capa=0x0
  capabilities: key_mgmt 0x0 enc 0x3 flags 0x0
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5
Own MAC address: a0:0b:ba:6c:e4:48
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=0 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=1 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=2 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_key: alg=0 key_idx=3 set_tx=0 seq_len=0 key_len=0
wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
RSN: flushing PMKID list in the driver
Setting scan request: 0 sec 100000 usec
WPS: UUID based on MAC address - hexdump(len=16): b1 7d 94 e4 f5 d4 58 7e 96 91 fc c6 c2 5a 51 2f
EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: KEY_RX entering state NO_KEY_RECEIVE
EAPOL: SUPP_BE entering state INITIALIZE
EAP: EAP entering state DISABLED
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
Added interface wlan0
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11043 ([UP][RUNNING][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
Trying to get current scan results first without requesting a new scan to speed up initial association
Received 4096 bytes of scan results (8 BSSes)
BSS: Start scan result update 1
BSS: Add new id 0 BSSID 78:19:f7:77:8b:82 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Add new id 1 BSSID 78:19:f7:78:42:82 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Add new id 2 BSSID 78:19:f7:73:44:c2 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Add new id 3 BSSID 00:16:ca:32:7f:c0 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Add new id 4 BSSID 66:6d:57:68:63:57 SSID 'Connectify-wxs'
BSS: Add new id 5 BSSID 78:19:f7:77:8b:80 SSID 'WPI-Guest'
BSS: Add new id 6 BSSID 78:19:f7:78:42:80 SSID 'WPI-Guest'
BSS: Add new id 7 BSSID 78:19:f7:73:44:c0 SSID 'WPI-Guest'
New scan results available
Selecting BSS from priority group 0
Try to find WPA-enabled AP
0: 78:19:f7:77:8b:82 ssid='WPI-Wireless' wpa_ie_len=0 rsn_ie_len=20 caps=0x11
   selected based on RSN IE
   selected WPA AP 78:19:f7:77:8b:82 ssid='WPI-Wireless'
Trying to associate with 78:19:f7:77:8b:82 (SSID='WPI-Wireless' freq=2412 MHz)
Cancelling scan request
WPA: clearing own WPA/RSN IE
Automatic auth_alg selection: 0x1
Overriding auth_alg selection: 0x1
RSN: using IEEE 802.11i/D9.0
WPA: Selected cipher suites: group 16 pairwise 16 key_mgmt 1 proto 2
WPA: clearing AP WPA IE
WPA: set AP RSN IE - hexdump(len=22): 30 14 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 01 00 00
WPA: using GTK CCMP
WPA: using PTK CCMP
WPA: using KEY_MGMT 802.1X
WPA: Set own WPA IE default - hexdump(len=22): 30 14 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 04 01 00 00 0f ac 01 00 00
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: DISCONNECTED -> ASSOCIATING
wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5
wpa_driver_wext_associate
wpa_driver_wext_set_drop_unencrypted
wpa_driver_wext_set_psk
^Cioctl[SIOCSIWESSID]: Interrupted system call
Association request to the driver failed
Setting authentication timeout: 5 sec 0 usec
EAPOL: External notification - EAP success=0
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: External notification - EAP fail=0
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: External notification - portControl=Auto
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
RTM_NEWLINK: operstate=0 ifi_flags=0x11003 ([UP][LOWER_UP])
RTM_NEWLINK, IFLA_IFNAME: Interface 'wlan0' added
Wireless event: cmd=0x8b04 len=12
Removing interface wlan0
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
wpa_driver_wext_set_operstate: operstate 0->0 (DORMANT)
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=-1, operstate=5
EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
EAPOL: External notification - portValid=0
EAPOL: Supplicant port status: Unauthorized
wpa_driver_wext_set_countermeasures
No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
BSS: Remove id 0 BSSID 78:19:f7:77:8b:82 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Remove id 1 BSSID 78:19:f7:78:42:82 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Remove id 2 BSSID 78:19:f7:73:44:c2 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Remove id 3 BSSID 00:16:ca:32:7f:c0 SSID 'WPI-Wireless'
BSS: Remove id 4 BSSID 66:6d:57:68:63:57 SSID 'Connectify-wxs'
BSS: Remove id 5 BSSID 78:19:f7:77:8b:80 SSID 'WPI-Guest'
BSS: Remove id 6 BSSID 78:19:f7:78:42:80 SSID 'WPI-Guest'
BSS: Remove id 7 BSSID 78:19:f7:73:44:c0 SSID 'WPI-Guest'
Cancelling scan request
Cancelling authentication timeout
netlink: Operstate: linkmode=0, operstate=6

[njpollard]

If anyone is trying to automatically connect wifi at startup on the Kobo Mini, I found the following script on a Japanese website:

#!/bin/sh 
insmod /drivers/ntx508/wifi/sdio_wifi_pwr.ko 
insmod /drivers/ntx508/wifi/dhd.ko 
sleep 2 
ifconfig eth0 up 
wlarm_le -i eth0 up 
wpa_supplicant -s -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -C /var/run/wpa_supplicant -B 
udhcpc -S -i eth0 -s /etc/udhcpc.d/default.script -t15 -T10 -A3 -f -q

Hope this is of help to some people.

Source:
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/...42/?ST=oss&P=2

[lsmod]

Hello Sven,

is there any further progress in your genius project now?
This looks very good!

[z000ao8q]

Hello,
for me the japanese part works as-is - but nickel needs to be down.
I went a step further and also shut down the whole wifi interface again after I don´t use it anymore.

#!/bin/sh
killall wpa_supplicant
wlarm_le -i eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
rmmod dhd
rmmod sdio_wifi_pwr

My setup is based on an hourly cron job (during the day) with

1. starts Wifi
2. call an image generator php-script on my NAS
3. downloades the ready-converted raw.gz
4. shutdown wifi

The battery is now up for almost 1 week already - I still need to do a precise runtime measurement.

I am using this to read various temperature sensors in the house + a forecast from wunderground.com
The complete setup is being shown here

[KevinShort]

Originally Posted by z000ao8q

I am using this to read various temperature sensors in the house + a forecast from wunderground.com
The complete setup is being shown here

Pretty nice, might I ask what command you are using to generate the raw image for the Kobo?

[andyh2000]

Originally Posted by z000ao8q

Hello,
...
My setup is based on an hourly cron job (during the day) with

1. starts Wifi
2. call an image generator php-script on my NAS
3. downloades the ready-converted raw.gz
4. shutdown wifi

...

That's brilliant being able to get the wifi up and down on demand. I shall have to try that myself.

And can we see a photo of the device in action?

Andrew

[z000ao8q]

hello,

this is how it currently looks like (the battery level on right-top)


regarding the php-script:

• basically its creating an image
• filling it with e.g. a lot of imagettftext
• rotating it
• saving it
• and executing a shell command to convert it

$im = ImageCreate (800, 600);
......
$rotate = ImageCreate (600, 800);
$rotate = imagerotate($im, 90 ,0);
imagepng($rotate, "kobo.png");
$convert = shell_exec("sh ./kobo.sh");

the shell script (on QNAP) is:

/mnt/ext/opt/medialibrary/bin/ffmpeg -i kobo.png -vf transpose=2 -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb565 -s 800x600 -y kobo.raw < /dev/null
gzip -c kobo.raw > kobo.raw.gz