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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] wireless-bash scripts
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:23:25 -0700

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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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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Shock Physics @ WSU
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