[pkg-fso-maint] wicd now working?

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:39:37 +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:

> > 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. 

At least nobody has spoken up yet with a better proposal.

> 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? 

Yup.

> 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?!?

No, wicd doesn't use /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf but has
its own configuration under /etc/wicd, and AFAICS it creates it's own
wpa-supplicant files on the fly from them.

Not that /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf really hurts, it's
just not used by wicd.

> 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.

I think I only installed wicd, the rest got pulled in and that's all
I need.

I have no opinion wrt udhcpc vs. dhcp3-client; I just checked on my
Freerunner:

deanna:~# dpkg -l *dhcp*
[..]
+++-=====================-=====================-==========================================================
un  dhcp-client           <none>                (no description available)
ii  dhcp3-client          3.1.1-6               DHCP client
ii  dhcp3-common          3.1.1-6               common files used by all the dhcp3* packages
un  dhcpcd                <none>                (no description available)
pn  udhcpc                <none>                (no description available)

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

I never used wifi-radar but AFAIK it's similar to wicd. Installing
both sounds a bit like installing openoffice.org and then abiword
additionally.

Well, maybe wifi-radar is nicer/smaller/... than wicd but someone
needs to test it ...

Ah, one difference is: "You need to have root access to use this
program." (wifi-radar's description), so it's probably not that
useful if we change the default user from root to something else.

 
Cheers,
gregor
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