wpa_supplicant support for ifup

[Jon Nettleton]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 02:02 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 March 2006 at 00:02, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > What do you think about the attached patch to ifup-wireless? Works for me :)
> > 
> > > This should really be done in NM.
> > 
> > 	Some of us would prefer to avoid being plagued by NM.  It
> > (wpa_supplicant) works just fine, independent of NM and I've just got it
> > hooked in the bottom of the ifup scripts as they describe doing on the
> > project site.  So far, I haven't found a problem that NM solves for me
> > and a few that it creates for me.  NM and wpa_supplicant should each be
> > optional and orthogonal to each other.
> 
> +1
> 
> Personally, I find NM quite troublesome and the named dependency puts me
> off immensely. Why the hell do I need to install a domain name server(!)
> on a laptop? I'm sticking with ifup/ifdown for the time being.
> 
This is completely off topic, but if you want to stick with ifup ifdown,
check out my old patches here,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132661

They provide scanning ap's at boot and choosing the correct wireless
config if your configs are name called ifcfg-ethx_essidname .  I found
it useful when switching from location to location back in the day.  If
you need help tweaking it mail me off the list.

Jon