[pkg-wpa-devel] cleaning up our suggested modes of use

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 11:22:57AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Development of the "new order" wpasupplicant seems to be stabilising, 
> and I see now two clear modes of operation, and would like to propose a 
> clean up; consolidate documentation and code support for (IMO) the two 
> preferred modes of operation.
> 
>   1. managed mode, all WPA settings given via the interfaces stanza for
>      any given network interface
>   2. roaming mode via wpa-roam/wpa_action: requires user supplied or
>      hand crafted wpa_supplicant.conf, and supports multiple locations
>      and network profiles

So the people who have moved from wpa_supplicant.conf to
/etc/network/interfaces a few releases ago when wpa_supplicant.conf
was deprecated are now asked to migrate back?

>    * hand crafted action scripts, their documentation, examples and
>      support in ifupdown.sh in the form of conf_wpa_cli() (and some
>      variable names) should disappear. I would like to _completely_
>      purge this stuff. These are not really a good solution for anybody
>      and they have been condemned before [1]. They are hackish and I
>      really dislike conf_wpa_cli() and WPA_CLI_ACTFILE. This would help
>      clean up a congested NEWS.Debian file too.

How are the WPA settings from /e/n/i then moved to the wpa_supplicant
code? Or doesn't /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant count as "hand
crafted"?

Is roaming mode via wpa-roam/wpa_action available in Debian unstable
now? Where can I find docs about how to use it?

Greetings
Marc

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