It worked. Now, I must find a way to determine whether we can communicate with a router. Found that also.
"ip a | grep wlan0" With wifi switched on and connection active: state UP With wifi turned off and connection still active: state DOWN That is what I need. Edward On 27/08/2015, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:40:49 +0100 > Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I added another function to core_functions.c. It attempts to connect >> to eth0 but for some weird reason, probably a bug not from our part, >> it is failing. >> >> The function is: int connectWired(const char ethx) >> >> And the error is: (passed command to execl is "ifup eth0") >> "This command should be called as ifup, ifdown, or ifquery" >> >> Any pointers as to what is the cause are appreciated. > > You might get lucky by sending execl the full path to ifup, perhaps > it's /sbin/ifup and execl didn't send the environment. > > > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
