Joerg Platte wrote:
Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.4.8-1
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
I'm using wpa_supplicant and ifplugd. Each time, wpa_supplicant is able to
associate with one of my preconfigured networks, ifplugd detects this and
invokes
"ifup interface". In /etc/network/interfaces I'm using some mappings to
select the current network based on the ESSID (different configurations with
different debian mirrors and proxy settings exist):
mapping ath0 wlan0
script /usr/local/sbin/guessnet-wlan
map HRZ\ WAVE-LAN wlan-hrz
map jako wlan-jako
map POLLE.home wlan-polle
With the newly created configuration modes I can't use this configuration
any more (please give me a hint if I'm wrong :-). Can you provide the "old"
startup links and configuration file as a third option? Otherwise I must
simply reactivate the old scripts, but this may result in some problems in
the future which may occur on package changes.
Hi Joerg,
I have some thoughts to implement some sort of network profiling using
only callbacks from wpa_cli. I'll try to get together some sort of code
for you to try soon. After the last release I've taken a little breather
to collect my thoughts, it was a hectic two weeks.
Personaly, I had no objection to the init script being included, but not
active. However, it had severe limitations, and as new programs emerge,
that can handle your wifi profiles (eg. network-manager) using far
superior methods than an init daemon + ifplugd (or whatever), it is
important that we move on with some lower level integration of
wpa_supplicant with out networking scripts, imho.
Having said that, its possible to provide a simplistic method of wifi
profiling, by calling for information from wpa_cli and executing
different network specific operations. The framework is already there,
using the manual inet METHOD plus an action script. The hard part is
fooling ifupdown into going along with such plans . . .
Thanks, Kel.
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