Bug#360387: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#360387: wpasupplicant: please support the "old" daemon mode as an configuration option

[Kel Modderman]

Joerg Platte wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.4.8-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm using wpa_supplicant and ifplugd. Each time, wpa_supplicant is able to
> associate with one of my preconfigured networks, ifplugd detects this and invokes
> "ifup interface". In /etc/network/interfaces I'm using some mappings to
> select the current network based on the ESSID (different configurations with
> different debian mirrors and proxy settings exist):
>
> mapping ath0 wlan0
>         script /usr/local/sbin/guessnet-wlan
>         map HRZ\ WAVE-LAN wlan-hrz
>         map jako wlan-jako
>         map POLLE.home wlan-polle
>
> With the newly created configuration modes I can't use this configuration
> any more (please give me a hint if I'm wrong :-). Can you provide the "old"
> startup links and configuration file as a third option? Otherwise I must
> simply reactivate the old scripts, but this may result in some problems in
> the future which may occur on package changes.
>   

Hi Joerg,

I have some thoughts to implement some sort of network profiling using 
only callbacks from wpa_cli. I'll try to get together some sort of code 
for you to try soon. After the last release I've taken a little breather 
to collect my thoughts, it was a hectic two weeks.

Personaly, I had no objection to the init script being included, but not 
active. However, it had severe limitations, and as new programs emerge, 
that can handle your wifi profiles (eg. network-manager) using far 
superior methods than an init daemon + ifplugd (or whatever), it is 
important that we move on with some lower level integration of 
wpa_supplicant with out networking scripts, imho.

Having said that, its possible to provide a simplistic method of wifi 
profiling, by calling for information from wpa_cli and executing 
different network specific operations. The framework is already there, 
using the manual inet METHOD plus an action script. The hard part is 
fooling ifupdown into going along with such plans . . .

Thanks, Kel.