[pkg-wpa-devel] Non-roaming usage of the daemon: Radio kill switch

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:21:48PM +0200, Felix Homann wrote:
> The so-called roaming mode is not only useful for actual roaming. Using the 
> wpasuppplicant daemon together with ifupdownd I can easily switch on/off the 
> wireless interface using the radio kill switch on my notebook. My machine 
> connects to the (or a) network whenever I switch the radio on. The other 
> appoaches seem to need me manually ifup'ing the interface. That's not very 
> comfortable.

I assume that you are talking about ifupdown. You are right, this
itself ist a real roaming solution yet. So will need an action script.
If all your locations provide dhcp, and you don't need any further
configuration there, you can use the example action script.

For more advanced roaming configurations, you could easily integrate
whereami or other scripts there.

IOW: I don't understand your problem.

> BTW: Thanks for deleting my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf in one of the 
> upgrades...Yes, there was valuable information in there :-(

We have written our postinst maintainer script to carefully preserve a
backup of your local configuration. It should be backed up just as
Joachim said.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard