On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:18 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > 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. Internal + USB? If you want to do wireless -> wireless sharing (say, in a hotel with $$$ wifi) then this is really your only option at the moment. Dan > > 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
