Package: wicd-daemon Version: 1.7.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Dear Maintainer,
I am working in a debian armel and armhf rootfs images to be used in the asus transformer tf101. The wifi driver is a broadcom propietary driver wich does not work with iwconfig or iw. the only thing it works is with wpa suplicant so i can't use wicd in this rootfs. I've notice also that wpa_cli is quite useful and works perfect. Looking at the code of wicd i've seen that seems to wicd only uses iwconfig to gather information and makes connection only throug wpa-supplicant so i think it would only be necesary change/add a few things. For example: scanning with wpa_cli instead of iwlist: "wpa_cli -i <iface> scan" scans for networks but does not give any results back, for that we have: "wpa_cli scan_results" with this kind of output: Selected interface 'wlan0' bssid / frequency / signal level / flags / ssid XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 2462 183 [WEP][ESS] JAZZTEL_BC XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 2447 180 [WPA-PSK-TKIP][ESS] ONO7828 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 2412 178 [WPA-PSK-CCMP][WPA2-PSK-CCMP][ESS] Jazztel_C4 XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX 2437 172 [WPA-PSK-TKIP+CCMP][WPA2-PSK-TKIP+CCMP][WPS][ESS] Orange-8b28 It's easy for me to change cmd string to make wpa_cli scan instead of iwconfig, but it's far away for my abilities to split and parse the results and store them in the correct variables. I think the other iwconfig commands would still work if only are necesary to gather information and not to set the interface in anyway. Does wicd set wep encrypted or open wifis settings with iwconfig or does it also with wpa_supplicant? Could I (when i say I i don't mean i am capable of it) write another backend to use only wpa_supplicant or would it be too messy? Thanks and cheers Iker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
