Wifi network start and stop scripts

This script is to be used by systemd for manually launching
wpa_supplicant. But as of now I don't use it as I use
network-manager/connman.

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/start-network b/start-network
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9b9212f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/start-network
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+INTERFACE="$1"
+
+# Set interface up
+/sbin/ip link set $INTERFACE up
+
+# Launch wpa_supplicant in daemon mode
+/sbin/wpa_supplicant -B -D nl80211,wext \
+		     -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpasupplicant.conf\
+		     -i$INTERFACE -ddd
+
+# Get the IP from router
+/sbin/dhclient $INTERFACE
diff --git a/stop-network b/stop-network
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..294409c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stop-network
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+INTERFACE="$1"
+
+/sbin/ip addr flush dev $INTERFACE
+/sbin/ip link set $INTERFACE down