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

[Kel Modderman]

On Thursday 03 August 2006 18:04, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:40:51PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 23:11, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > So I need to migrate back to wpa_supplicant.conf after migrating from
> > > wpa_supplicant.conf to /e/n/i after learning that wpa_supplicant.conf
> > > was deprecated.
> >
> > Well, what this package allows in terms of usability is increasing as my
> > own knowledge of wpa_supplicant increases (and programming ability). I
> > became involved with the development of the package just after it was
> > decided that we move away from that stuff. So yes, there is some
> > volatility with respect to the way this package is being used, and yes
> > this package is being actively developed, and yes it is part of a
> > developing debian release. So lets not stumble upon past history again
> > please, but rather look towards what happens in the future and how people
> > are going to adapt to the changes as part of a release upgrade.
>
> Agreed. I was actually trying to find out whether I have misunderstood
> and might be doing something wrong by actively going back.

Yep, thats a valid concern. It good to know you are keeping an eye on 
things ;-)


> > When wpa_supplicant is launched, it uses a network interface to scan for
> > an appropriate network. If one is found, and successfully associated to,
> > it sends a CONNECTED signal to the ctrl_interface socket.
>
> For some reason (may be caused by ap_scan=2 which I need due to hidden
> ssids in some of my "home" networks), wpa_supplicant first configures
> the interface for one network, waits a minute, and then tries the
> others one after the other, which greatly slows down the roaming. Is
> it possible to have wpa_supplicant first look which networks are
> _visible_ and immediately take one of these if there is configuration
> for it? Only if none of the visible networks matches, hidden ssids
> should be tried (as this takes _much_ longer).

That question would be best directed at Jouni on the hostap mailing list. I do 
not now if it is possible or not.

Thanks, Kel.