[pkg-fso-maint] wicd now working?

[Steffen Moeller]

gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:47:39 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> 
>> In "install.sh configuration" we are setting up everything to copy the wpa-supplicant
>> setting from the local machine to the neo. I have locally moved that to the task "WIFI",
>> assuming that this makes sense only when WIFI is available. Or am I am missing anything?
> 
> If the wifi task installs wicd, then copying
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf is useless since wicd uses
> its own configuration files. Or did you mean something else?

Ah. I have no idea and have only presumed the two to be somehow compatible. Good that I
asked :)  My understanding was that we have kind of agreed that wicd is the way to go for
a default wifi installation. The previously known issues (wicd ruins the connection to the
neo upon installation and it could not be successfully installed from a chroot) should
both be ironed out now.


Under "configuration" we currently have this code:

	if [ -f "$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF" ]; then
	  echo " * Installing wpasupplicant, wireless-tools and udhcpc"
	  chroot "$INST_DIR" apt-get $APT_OPTIONS install wpasupplicant wireless-tools udhcpc
	  echo " * $WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF copied from this machine"
	  cat > "$INST_DIR$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF" <$WPA_SUPPLICANT_CONF
	fi

If I understood your comment right, then the above should not be installed if wicd is
installed, right? I am somewhat irritated, though, since wicd depends on wireless-tools,
wpasupplicant and "dhcpd | dhcp3-client | pump". So, wpasupplicant is installed upon an
otherwise innocent install of wicd. So, the copying would make sense after all?!?
And since udhcpc is providing dhcp3-client, I should make sure to install that rather than
something else, right? I'd hence suggest to install wpasupplicant wireless-tools udhcpc
for the task WIFI and leave the "if" only for the copying of the wpa_supplicant
configuration.

The fyp folks also install wicd, and they add wifi-radar on top. Should that be mimmicked?

Many thanks and best regards,

Steffen