[SM-Discuss] wireless-bash scripts

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Mon May 15 13:23:25 EDT 2006


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Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> David, I'm delighted to see you focus on making wireless "just work" on Linux. 
> I also share that dream.
> 
> I haven't yet tested your script, and I doubt I will in the near future, 
> because I need WPA for all my wifi stuff. But I've researched wpa_supplicant 
> for some time now, and will at some point attempt to pull together an app to 
> help manage connections with it.
> 
> You're right in that wpa_supplicant is hard to figure out, but not impossible. 
> Once you get to know the program you'll see that it's capable of much more 
> than initially seems, and is a steady base upon which to build a wireless 
> manager UI.
> 
> You can run wpa_supplicant as daemon, and you can then add, remove and edit 
> networks via wpa_cli. The config file approach that Dave highlighted is one 
> approach, but I like the dynamic operation that wpa_cli offers much more.
> 
> Oh, the reason why wpa_supplicant hasn't an init script is probably because 
> the program itself doesn't ship one. I have an init script on my box, but 
> I've figured that adding something like that to our spell is against the SMGL 
> philosophy.

If a package can use an init script, but doesn't include one, we do
write our own, AFAIK.

- -sandalle

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