On Thursday, 30 October 2008 at 15:04, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 13:34 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: [...] > > What's wrong with manually editing wpa_supplicant.conf? > > Because it's not easily from anything but wpa_supplicant, and it's > completely different than the existing ifup/ifdown config system. > System-config-network would have to grow the ability to parse the > wpa_supplicant config file format. You can't override the variables > from /etc/sysconfig/network if you want to. There's no separation of > interfaces to allow for multiple connections with two or more wifi cards > with 'ifup number1' and 'ifup number2' independently. How often do you see machines with multiple wifi cards? I haven't seen any. I could easily set one up by adding a usb stick with wifi or a pcmcia card, but I haven't needed it yet. > A much better, more integrated and consistent implementation would have > each ifcfg file essentially be a network block in the supplicant config > file. When you 'ifup my-wpa', the scripts write out a new supplicant > config file using key/value pairs > in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-my-wpa and execute a supplicant > based on that, then somehow wait for the supplicant to connect by > listening on the specific control socket for a connection, and if no > connection occurs, time out and fail just like DHCP fails. When you > 'ifdown my-wpa', it will terminate the supplicant based on the PID file > written to /var/run/wpa_supplicant-wlan0-my-wpa.pid and clean up the > routing and addresses. > > That's what the patch _should_ do. Just tossing a config file off to > the supplicant is a cop-out half solution. Alright, I'll see what I can come up with. I guess I can understand your unwillingness to accept a half-assed solution that works only in one scenario. After all, I don't like half-assed solutions myself. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
