NM alternatives for wireless
Andrea
mariofutire at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 19 13:07:13 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> Andras Simon wrote:
>
> I have a similar situation, wireless at home and at the office and at
> Wifi hotspots all over town. To be honest, I've given up on the GUI
> clients almost completely (NM I think might be coming along, but it's
> not high on my list to try to debug since I don't use it that often) and
> have gone with some very simple BASH scripts that let me load whatever
> configuration I want when I need it. I've never been particularly lucky
> with loading wireless interfaces on boot (one desktop being the
> exception, it works perfectly) and load them as I need them.
>
> Granted it's not as user friendly, but it's simple, it works
> consistently for me and it's one less thing I have to worry about.
>
>
I have my own personal solution using ifup/ifdown but it requires some modification:
1) wpa_supplicant must be started before the network (default is the opposite)
2) change ifup-wireless and ifcfg-wlan0 to skip all configurations (already done by wpa_supplicant)
then you can do ifup wlan0 and ifdown wlan0, and have it at boot time.
The drawback is that I don't have a way to tell if wpa_supplicant fails.
If you want I can post the exact modifications needed.
Andrea
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