Connect to wifi on startup

[riverpi]

I am starting work on a project with my raspberry pi, and decided that a basic command line only interface -- such as that provided but arch by default -- would be perfect for my needs. I have an edimax USB Wifi dongle attached, and have it running just fine, but am having an issue getting it to automatically connect to my wifi.

I have been using the

wifi-menu -o

command to log in to my wifi, and have managed to figure out how to have sshd start up with the pi, but not the wifi connection. Any ideas or suggestions?

[pepedog]

First let me tell how wired interface is started

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systemctl enable netctl-ifplugd@eth0

What this means is it looks thru all files in /etc/netctl/ and if these lines match, and network starts, it stops looking at other files
Interface=eth0
Connection=ethernet
You are probably going to disable this service
It is coincidence that the file in /etc/netctl is called eth0

Now you used wifi-menu to connect, and it created a profile.
The equivalent to above for wifi is

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systemctl enable netctl-auto@wlan0

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne ... f_profiles

[riverpi]

I tried that it did not seem to work for me. I even wend so far as to write my own service for a script that runs

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netctl start Homebase

(my wifi-menu profile is called Homebase)

The script ran after I reboot but did not seem to work (initially throwing a '[failed]'). Though when I ran it with the sh command to test my work it worked fine, so I corrected the '.service' file to reflect the 'sh' command. I didn't get a failed this time, but it still did not start automatically and I had to login on the pi itself to connect to the web so I could remote in through putty.

[sdjf]

when your wifi is up and running, run ifconfig to see what the interface is called at that point. that has to match what you have in the profile.

ifconfig

[riverpi]

Well apparently I overthought your reply, when I copied and pasted your original command into putty (since it called it wlan0), it worked like a charm.

Thanks.