On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Am 22.10.2012 17:57, schrieb Nelson Marambio: > > I use wpa_supplicant in combination with the -B switch to establish the > > connection. After a pause of 10 seconds I pull an IP address by calling > > dhcpcd. > > I can't count the number of reasons why this is a bad idea. > > I've looked into this topic years ago, and the result is netcfg's > net-auto-wireless mode. > > > That's interesting. Why is that a bad idea? I used to do it by hand, waiting for wpa_supplicant to stablish a connection and then running dhcp. Nowadays I just use wicd but I'm interested to understand what could go wrong. -- Rafael Beraldo cabaladada.org
