[SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Eric Sandall (4a27b33186929b926216cd429b4d705d8b065202)
Juuso Alasuutari
iuso at sourcemage.org
Tue May 22 14:34:16 EDT 2007
Eric Sandall wrote:
> Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
>> Eric Sandall wrote:
>>> GIT changes to master grimoire by Eric Sandall <sandalle at sourcemage.org>:
>>>
>>> net/wpa_supplicant/HISTORY | 8 ++++++++
>>> net/wpa_supplicant/init.d/wpa_supplicant | 3 ++-
>>> 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> New commits:
>>> commit 06c448c79f95becc0a1d964d2abe98ff152ad661
>>> Author: Eric Sandall <sandalle at sourcemage.org>
>>> Commit: Eric Sandall <sandalle at sourcemage.org>
>>>
>>> wpa_supplicant: Update init script for my setup
> <snip>
>> Just to be extra careful: Is it possible that your device would report
>> this in some other cases, or that some other device might report this
>> even when it's connected?
>
> If the ESSID is not set then it is not associated with any network,
> which is what WPA is looking for.
>
>> As a side note, the whole if-then chain is far from perfect. There may
>> be (and probably are) other kinds of devices too that don't interact
>> well with the parsing. Do you have ideas about how we could reliably
>> check for an existing connection? I have a feeling that parsing iwconfig
>> is a bad thing. Heck, I wrote the thing myself so it can't be all good. :)
>
> I'm just trying to get my wireless working, after that I can try to help
> with finding the Right Way(TM) to do this. :)
Good luck. :) I suppose you're aware of this:
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Wireless_Howto
iuso
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