I need to make an adhoc connection on Archlinux (netbook used as a wifi repeater), I was using this tutorial to do it on Ubuntu :
At the terminal install execute
sudo apt-get install dnsmasq-base
and thensudo apt-get remove dnsmasq
Restart the NetworkManager by executing
sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart
Left-click on the NetworkManager icon and click "Create New Wireless Network"
Name it "UbuntuAdhoc" and set the encryption to "WEP40"
Connect PC2 using Ad-Hoc to the PC1
The main problem is dnsmasq-mase
is missing but dnsmasq
is present on Archlinux.
Here's what I found that could be helpful:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dnsmasq
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=6431
pacman -S dnsmasq
mkdir /etc/dnsmasq
mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/dnsmasq
cd /etc
echo nameserver 127.0.0.1 > resolv.conf
mv rc.conf rc.conf.save
sed '/DAEMON/s/network/network dnsmasq.local/g' rc.conf.save>rc.conf
cd rc.d
sed '/-z/s/dnsmasq/dnsmasq -r /etc/dnsmasq/resolv.conf /g' dnsmasq>dnsmasq.local
/etc/rc.d/dnsmasq.local start
/etc/rc.d/network restart
I have a problem with:
sed '/-z/s/dnsmasq/dnsmasq -r /etc/dnsmasq/resolv.conf /g' dnsmasq>dnsmasq.local
It say that's the ../s/..
is not a known option.
It seems to have broken the networkmanager
applet on xfce4. I blacklisted the dnsmasq stuff in /etc/rc.conf
, it will be to repair in the progress, I can't use my wifi connection for now but my lan will do for now …
I also checked about various ways of using a adhoc connection, as my girlfriend use my PC and I travel sometimes, I need a graphical way to make the adhoc connection.
I checked my favorite software wicd
but it cannot make multiple connections and adhoc. It said that the version 2.0 maybe would but for now, the only alternative is networkmanager
.
So, how I do it?
Best Answer
The
sed
command is broken (I guess people overlooked it somehow on the forum you refer to). It should be:The fact that you used that broken
sed
command resulted in erasing/etc/rc.d/dnsmasq.local
(or creating it as an empty file). I don't know the details of how NetworkManager is configured on Ubuntu, but I'm guessing that the fact of/etc/rc.d/dnsmasq.local
being empty can have an important impact on your whole network configuration.You can either:
Verify that
/etc/rc.d/dnsmasq.local
really is empty and if so, remove it - your network configuration should get back to the state at which it was before issuing that unfortunatesed
command.cd
into`/etc/rc.d/
and run the correctedsed
command above. This should create thednsmasq.local
file containing what the author of that forum post really intended. Possibly the rest might work after that.