WPA without NetworkManager (was: Re: X on tty1 in Rawhide/F10)

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Thu Oct 30 12:34:45 UTC 2008


On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 21:57, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik at greysector.net) said: 
> > > Not in the context of init.d/network, which is what I meant. (Well, not
> > > outside of gross hacks.)
> > 
> > Yes, it works in that context. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless
> > needs a small patch which I posted in bugzilla and which has been ignored
> > for years. The patch isn't actually mine, it was posted on one of fedora lists.
> > I can't find that bugzilla report right now so I'm attaching the patch here
> > instead.
> 
> Possibly because that particular patch wasn't ever in bugzilla (AFAICT.)

It was, although it contained reindentation cosmetics. I only cleaned it up.

> It's certainly a better one, but there's still the problem of entirely
> disparate configuration (manually editing wpa_supplicant.conf, etc.)

What's wrong with manually editing wpa_supplicant.conf?

The patch doesn't break anything. I don't understand why, in the pursuit
of all-encompassing NM-based network configuration, some people don't want
to allow any alternative methods.

Regards,
R.

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