wpa_supplicant support for ifup

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:50 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 15 mars 2006 03:51, Bill Nottingham a écrit :
> > Chris Adams (cmadams at hiwaay.net) said:
> >> > > What do you think about the attached patch to ifup-wireless? Works
> >> for me :)
> >> >
> >> > This should really be done in NM.
> >>
> >> NM doesn't support system network configuration; only when a user logs
> >> in will NM work.  That is supposed to change eventually, but people are
> >> trying to use WPA today.
> >
> > True. But the goal is to only have *one* source of network configuration;
> 
> If you want this NM, gnome-power-manager and other GFX tools need to grow
> a CLI/daemon personality ASAP.

You can do this for any service that exposes a dbus interface.  Nothing
stops your from using dbus-send on the CLI, or whipping up your own
scripts, to do this Right Now.  What you imply is missing is either 1) a
set of tools like ifconfig/ip/ifup/ifdown/etc that all perform discrete
functions in isolation of each other, or 2) a CLI client with an
interface like mysql or pgsql.

Dan