On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 07:46:33 pm Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Package: wpasupplicant > Version: 0.6.0~cvs20070224-3 > > I'm forwarding a bug from ubuntu here so that it doesn't get lost > somewhere. It seems that we also have this in debian.
> In Edgy /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz used to say to put: > > wpa-conf managed Gah. This is right down the fricking bottom of the document in the section about dealing with hidden ssid's that someone added a while back based on a very old configuration. This example should have been adjusted to not show that line at all a *long* time ago. I missed it. For the transition to not be rocky for those few poor people who followed that advice and not the 5 other examples of configuring WPA via "managed" mode described a few paragraphs above, ugly hacks to a hot path of the ifupdown hook would be required. Patch against pkg-wpa trunk is attached. Kel.
Index: debian/ifupdown/ifupdown.sh =================================================================== --- debian/ifupdown/ifupdown.sh (revision 849) +++ debian/ifupdown/ifupdown.sh (working copy) @@ -73,6 +73,10 @@ # master function; determines if ifupdown.sh should do something or not if [ -n "$IF_WPA_CONF" ]; then if [ ! -s "$IF_WPA_CONF" ]; then + # Bugs: #428137 LP:#119415, allow 'wpa-conf managed' to pass through + if [ "$IF_WPA_CONF" = "managed" ]; then + WPA_SUP_CONF="-C $WPA_CTRL_DIR" + fi wpa_msg stderr "cannot read contents of $IF_WPA_CONF" exit 1 fi Index: debian/README.modes =================================================================== --- debian/README.modes (revision 849) +++ debian/README.modes (working copy) @@ -496,7 +496,6 @@ If you are using the managed mode, you can do so by these stanzas: iface eth1 inet dhcp - wpa-conf managed wpa-ap-scan 1 wpa-scan-ssid 1 # ... additional options for your setup
