Zandra Networking Guide

A Note on Drivers

The minimal kernel configuration used in Zandra means that your network drivers are likely not included if you aren’t using Qemu. These can be added by compiling your own kernel, either locally or from another machine.

Wired

Wired internet connection can be activated using 2 shell commands. These can also be made a svc service (although this hasn’t been implemented yet). First, however, you must use ip link to find out what your wired network interface is called:

[user@zandra ~]$ ip link 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [user@zandra ~]$

Now, you must turn the interface on and start a DHCP daemon.

[user@zandra ~]$ ip link set eth0 up [user@zandra ~]$ sdhcp

Wireless

Wireless internet connection can be activated using wpa_supplicant as well as sdhcp.

[user@zandra ~]$ ip link # find wireless interface name 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff [user@zandra ~]$ wpa_passphrase "Wireless SSID" "password" >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf # add network [user@zandra ~]$ wpa_supplicant -B -i wlan0 -D nl80211 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf # start wpa_supplicant [user@zandra ~]$ sdhcp # start DHCP

Again, this can be automated.