[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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