[pkg-wpa-devel] Maybe wpasupplicant just shouldn't roam at all..

[Kel Modderman]

Joachim Breitner wrote:
>
> I don't think it should be a mapping script (we actually have that,
> that's guessnet, see below). But the point is that this daemon should
> work _before_ ifupdown. Think of it this way. We have not hardware that
> tells us that we are plugged in, so we need something to replace that.
> It should work very analogous to ifplugd, IMHO.
>   

The above paragraph is one of many in a series of thread's just started 
due to the removal of wpasupplicant's init script that describes the 
situation where a wifi roaming daemon is indeed required, but is 
out-of-the scope of the wpasupplicant packaging itself.

The ifupdown glue for wpa_supplicant should be just the stuff required 
for such a daemon to bring up various mappings/network profiles defined 
in /e/n/i that require wpa encryption (in the case of a simple mapping 
daemon).

So, i put it to you, that the removal of the wpasupplicant init script 
based daemon has uncovered a void; there is no *single* wifi roaming 
daemon available to us (at the time of writing), or we simply have not 
found it yet.

Thanks, Kel.