Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Eric Sandall (4a27b33186929b926216cd429b4d705d8b065202)
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:44:09 -0700
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. :)